Sorsha Blaze makes her living lifting valuables from people who will not miss them, and she has a particular sideline: freeing shadowkind creatures from the collectors who keep them caged. A job that should have been routine puts her in the company of three of them — Thorn, a warrior; Ruse, an incubus; and Snap, who can read the history of an object by taste.
They want to get home. Sorsha wants the people responsible for the deaths that shaped her life. The bargain they strike keeps all four of them in the human world, chasing a group that has been trapping and torturing shadowkind for its own ends.
Eva Chase's series opener is a why-choose urban fantasy romance: fast, banter-heavy, and built on a slow escalation of both the conspiracy and Sorsha's connection to all three of her monsters.