The deeper she goes, the darker it gets.Many of her friends knew Bliss Carter as the well-behaved debutante ward of Lady Elizabeth Southwell, and she was. But she was also the type of girl who went looking for trouble.When bodies go missing from the cemetery of a prominent Pensacola family, Bliss Carter starts asking questions. The answers take her on a journey full of terrifying rituals, reanimated corpses, and a subterranean world of things that, for the sake of sanity, normal people push to the back of their minds. Some of these things live on rotten flesh, and others are intent on ushering the return of ancient life-destroying cosmic deities.With the help of a retired British spy, a small-town detective, a video game nerd, and a formerly-deceased Southern aristocrat, Bliss is determined to uncover the truth and thwart the evil otherworldly power -- but will she and her crew be able to bring this extraordinary case to a close before it's too late?