After three hundred years of being a Time Keeper, Amara had seen human tragedy that would destroy anyone with real emotion. Luckily for her, Keepers didn't have such things. Instead, they had the Keeper's Laws. Wind the clocks, never reset the clocks, and never interfere or the human will die, and the Keeper will face an eternity of torment deep in the bowels of Sheol. But when humanity finds its way into her heart, Amara makes breaks all the rules. In the ticking of a clock's secondhand, Amara makes a choice to save her current wards, Anthony and Desiree, from meeting their heartbreaking fate. On the run, the trio seeks out a half-blood human from Amara's past. With Marcus's help, Amara is determined to find a way to reset the teenager's destinies and save them all. Forced to battle wicked spirit guards and their demon dogs, rattlesnake charming zealots, a Reaper born of chaos, and hell-bent Keepers turned to murderous and power-hungry fiends, the group traverses into a world where even their allies present danger and even souls without destinies have a purpose.