Saving the High Desert from an ancient monster is hard. Doing it with a reluctant witch, alcoholic necromancer, slutty librarian, and a cartel hitman is a hostage situation.

Uncovering why the region’s local legends were vanishing into thin air was supposed to save the Southwest. Instead, Macarthy Black just succeeded in getting an ancient monster’s undivided, murderous attention.

Now with a giant target painted on her back, Macarthy is forced into cahoots with the absolute last three people she’d ever choose: a weather-watching, closet necromancer; a razor-witted librarian and cleric who won’t shut up; and a dangerously charming stranger with arcane power.

Sparks fly, tempers flare, and nobody trusts anybody. But with a world-altering Reaping on the horizon, this disaster of a makeshift coven will have to pull it together—or watch the whole world turn to dust.

This book features LGBTQ+ and BIPOC themes, including they/them pronouns.

Trigger warnings: violence, abandonment, betrayal, on-screen death, mild transphobia