The gang at the Ashport Conservatory is more divided than ever as no one can agree on a course of action to save their friends. Nigel seeks to save Sen from the verdicts of the Fae courts. Talibah pursues the Hoopoe for answers to her terrifying visions. Leaven steps into a new position of power over the Conservators. As the cracks in their friendship grow wider, a chain of events is set off leaving an opening for the return of the Primordial demons.Between enemies new and old, the Ashport gang finds itself overwhelmed and at the doorstep of Death itself. Who among them will Death collect and who can Leaven save from its clutches?