Raven Kryptkee may be dead, but you ain’t seen nothing yet! Like all common shapeshifting ravens, it’s her job to wrangle the wretched. But what does that mean? Raven will have to retrieve a lost soul of a close friend in the half-light and escort it all the way to the ethereal plane.

That’s no simple task since the newly departed suffer from post-mortem stupid-head, and time’s working against them. The longer a soul stays in the half-light, the more likely they’ll be trapped there forever. It’s so easy to get lost in between.

Raven’s friends have secrets. Someone’s a reluctant spy. Someone’s in love with a mermaid. Someone’s bending and controlling time. Someone’s a dirty traitor. And since their food rations were stolen, the rescue party will have to deal with ravaging hunger and finding food in the wild of Walkenwood.

Hilda has her first successful hunt, and it turns into a heart-wrenching ordeal for everyone. And Vincent disposes of a dead body to sever Raven’s immortal bond to a slain betrayer. The crab King Roche musters the Maryns to create a sea creature army on land. The cephalopod officer’s have fishmen troops, a crustacean artillery, and flying sharks to defeat the chimeras and rioting trees. It’s an interspecies battle for supremacy of the food chain.

And meanwhile, a creature called the Adreena lurks in the shadows, creating and feeding on the fear of humans. This monster finds the terror inspired by Roche to be delicious, but the King wants nothing to do with such a parasite. Meanwhile, Everstar picks a fight with the forest and causes a stampede that turns into a tree rodeo. He falls in love with an android, and learns to care about something other than winning at all costs. The major gets exposed the the fatal zoophagium virus. And Hilda learns how to use her dream raiding powers to win the affection of Jon. Or does she?