Necromancy's harmless when you're only using it to bring your brother back from the dead after a freak accident... right? That's Poppy's argument – but now she's got half the merged human and magical world after her and her brother, vying for her secrets to the long-lost art. The government, a mafia, two cults, Death itself – and two strangely magnetic beings with a little less meat on their bones than Poppy's used to.