Rachel McKenna returns home, free, but forever changed. Homecoming, however, is bitter-sweet when confronted with questions on her altered appearance and where she's been for the past month. Blessed, or cursed with immortality, she yearns to reclaim her stolen humanity. Atsuhiko Abe settles back into an old life eager to make up for lost time with Rachel and determined to meet her every waking desire, but remnants of the fox lord's magic still flows in her veins, keeping them at odds. Keeping them apart. Meanwhile, Celine BelCourt and Kaisuke Takakura, the outcast Tengu lord, are reunited after a decade apart and feelings long held in check converge, but old jealousies between them run deep. When Izanami resurfaces eager to collect on a bargain struck in the underworld, Atsuhiko and Rachel are forced to confront the ancient deity along with the help of a reluctant Kaisuke whose clan is out for blood hellbent and determined to raze the City of Chicago to the ground in order to get it.