Death waits for Noche Villanueva. In her human form, she is a lone science girl, grieving the tragic accidental drowning of her girlfriend, Dante Fuentes. In her other reality, Noche is shapeshifter, an ethereal jet-black owl called a Lechuza, an escort for the dead to the mystery of the ever after. It is her legacy, her duty, one she now refuses to honor for Dante because she can’t fathom letting her go, even though every moment Dante’s spirit roams the earth, the more she fades into the unknown to be lost forever

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Then, a new kid comes to town, Jax. They connect in a way Noche can’t ignore, her heart beating like it hasn’t since before Dante died. Noche begins to imagine a life without the ghost of her first love, until Jax reveals his own precarious mortality, which leaves Noche questioning her inherited purpose and everything she’s ever believed in.