One girl dares to stand apart A life that's not her own Sixteen-year-old Fannilea was born to the Kaa, a secret tribe of crow shape-shifters, duty-bound by ancient laws to devote her life to guiding dead souls from this world to the next-no matter what it costs her. Escape at any price-even death Punished and shunned by her people for asking too many questions, Fannilea flees to the human world, only to find that the Kaa do not intend to let her go-ever. A contract with a dark goddess As Fannilea struggles to survive in her strange new life, the Morrigan offers her what seems like a way out. But is it? Caught in an ever-growing web of lies and secrets, Fannilea faces the most difficult choices of her life-choices that will determine not only what kind of person she will be, but whether she lives to see another year.