No protection. No allies. No way out.

Tess Cooper has gone toe-to-toe with dark practitioners for years—black witches, death curses, supernatural hitmen—all while under the protection of Luis, a formidable brujo and the father of her son.

But now Luis and her child have vanished without a trace, leaving Tess stranded in Catemaco, Mexico—the epicenter of Latin American witchcraft.

With a drug cartel watching her every move, corrupt cops breathing down her neck, and practitioners of both light and dark magic playing their own dangerous games, Tess is trapped in a deadly power struggle. Her usual tricks won't work here. Her contacts can't help her. And the cartel's message is crystal clear: stay put, or people start dying.

Outgunned and outnumbered in a foreign land where the rules of magic run deeper and darker than she's ever encountered, Tess must become the hunter instead of the hunted. Because this time, there's no backup coming. No magical cavalry to save the day.

Meanwhile, the trail to find Luis grows colder with each passing hour, and the whispers say he's already dead.

In a deadly game where witch-hunters become the hunted, Tess must navigate a labyrinth of blood magic, family loyalty, and cartel violence to get her family back—or join them in disappearing forever.