Maren Vale has spent her life hiding the one thing that could get her killed—she can hear the dead.

In Vale's Crossing, everyone fears Blackwater Bridge. It is old, cursed, and said to lead somewhere no living soul should go. When Maren saves a drowned boy by opening a death-gate, she draws the attention of Prince Soren Ashwick, the cold heir to a throne built on secrets.

He needs her magic.

She wants nothing to do with him.

But beneath Blackwater Bridge, something ancient is waking.