The monsters came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had ever dreamed up. After the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were ripped open, the luckiest Cits live in enclosed communities, behind walls that keep them safe. To Joyeaux Charmand, who has been a Hunter in her tight-knit mountain community, every Cit without magic deserves her protection from dangerous Othersiders. Then she is called to Apex City, where the best Hunters are kept to protect the most important people.