In the shadows of Lowell, something ancient stirs...When Elsbeth arrives in the city, a quiet librarian from the countryside with a strange, untraceable energy signature, she expects dusty archives and quiet nights. What she finds instead is a city teetering on the edge of revelation.Beneath Lowell's crumbling mills and flickering streetlamps lies a hidden war: angels and devils, vampires and forgotten gods, all locked in an eternal struggle for dominion, or balance. Some want to burn the world. Others want to bind it. And Elsbeth, with her uncanny presence and unknowable past, is the anomaly that could tip the scales.As she's drawn deeper into this secret underworld, Elsbeth must confront the truth of her own nature. Is she a weapon, a witness, or something far stranger?