She is a monster enslaved, the Wolf. He is her reluctant handler, the Red. Together they are the protectors of their leader, their savior, their tyrant, Grandmother. This is their pilgrimage.

17-year-old Mia exists in a chronic state of anxiety. The counselors at her last two schools had a word for it: hyper-vigilance. At Kazemoto Security Corp.’s Supernatural Division, the recruitment scouts have a word for it, too: potential.

If the world were fair, Evelyn Radcliffe would be a successful businesswoman. Instead, she’s got two dead husbands, two teenage girls obsessed with marrying princes, and not a single fairy godmother in sight.

Born on opposite sides of the world, two young men drift inevitably toward their destinies. But when their journeys cross on an island of ghosts in the center of the world can these two from opposed lands combine goals or will old hates consume them?