Every twenty-five years, the Fates select mortal conduits to embody their myths—honored by the public, but stripped of choice as they’re remade into living symbols of immortal power.

Dana Singer has spent her life avoiding that fate. She watched her grandmother become Persephone’s conduit as a child and grew up refusing to bend a knee to forces that demand sacrifice disguised as reverence. Now married, working nights at a diner, and content with her quiet life, Dana believes she’s escaped the cycle.

She hasn’t.

On the night she’s meant to reunite with her grandmother for the first time in decades, Dana is unexpectedly chosen as a conduit herself, her soul bound irrevocably to the tragic, heartbreaking presence of Orpheus. Torn from her husband and thrust into a world she’s spent years resisting, Dana must navigate immoral politics, inherited grief, and a destiny that feels less like honor and more like a death sentence.

As the high forces close in and the cost of devotion becomes impossible to ignore, Dana is faced with an impossible question: can she rewrite a story that’s been told for thousands of years—or is she doomed to repeat it?