All Gideon Bean wants is to be left alone to burn corpses in peace. Is that too much to ask?Nothing exciting happens at Peterson Cremation Services - exactly how Gideon prefers it. All his life, he has seen things - scary and bizarre visions that weren't really there. Working the night shift at the crematorium and days at Sheryl's Shell Shack lets him keep his head down and ignore the strange world around him. The last time Gideon reacted to one of his hallucinations, he ended up in a psychiatric hold. He can't let anything like that happen again - it would break his mother's heart.Then suddenly, a woman with flaming wings and fiery eyes crawls out of a crematorium oven one night.Dacey Menet is a Mythical who is reborn in fire. She's investigating a series of local murders and disappearances, and she is enraged to have been one of the victims. Now Dacey needs Gideon's help to catch her murderer.Because it turns out his 'hallucinations' are real - Gideon Bean can see magic.