When Aru last left off everything was perfect, but waking up a day later, everything was not perfect, in fact everything was downright abysmal, and if you could believe it, was getting even worse.
Twenty-seasons-old Aruzhan ("Aru") is now in the thick of a disasterous malady that has overwhelmed even the best professionals, has turned a relatively peaceful town into an unstable arena of draconian law, and has taken every spell and herb she's thrown at it. Can another pact with the dead lead to success?