Mid-21st century. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahouney earns her living by slipping into other people’s minds and extracting crucial information for London’s criminal bosses. She is a “black” clairvoyant, a ghostly wanderer. The very fact that she exists is considered a crime in this new world, where the boundaries between reality and the otherworld have blurred, and power belongs to the rephaites—alien slave-drivers whose cruelty is matched only by their strength.
But one day everything collapses. Paige is arrested and taken to a forbidden city that has been hiding its secrets for already two hundred years. There, her fate is in the hands of a rephait unlike any of the others from this mysterious race: now he is her master, her warden, and her mentor. And at the same time—her natural enemy.
Now she has one task: to win back her freedom at any cost.