Lyric Morrison is looking to get away. After the Phoenix Coup, she wants to forget all about vampires. She decides to move to New Orleans, the perfect place for a fresh start. However, upon moving into her new apartment, Lyric meets a woman named Heather Campbell. She's bright, she's cheerful, and she's dead. Heather is a ghost, and she wants Lyric to solve her murder.
Suddenly, Lyric finds herself pulled back into the world of vampires and magic by a power she didn't know she possessed. Lyric is a medium, with the ability to communicate with the dead. As she's drawn further into the investigation, she meets Elias-the vampire who saved her life in Phoenix, who is also the number one suspect in Heather's untimely death.
Along the way, Lyric befriends another vampire named Lionel and Verity, a clairvoyant, both of whom have a dark secret tied to Lyric's own past. Torn between her feelings for Elias and her promise to help Heather, Lyric is caught in a tangled web of mystery that may be her undoing.