Three Rules of Bone Reading

In a damp, bone-chilling border town shrouded in mist, an inherited bloodline curse and three iron rules have been passed down among the bone-reading families: never read the bones of the dead, never read the bones of your own family, and never turn away someone who comes to you for help.

I was raised by my grandmother from childhood and inherited this uncanny art, which lets me glimpse the secrets of fate but also invites disaster. On the night I returned home on the seventh day, my grandmother acted like a madwoman. She left me a chilling warning and a sinister copper coin, then vanished without a trace. When I reported her disappearance, the people who arrived included not only the stern, no-nonsense detective Qin Lin, but also a terrifying evil spirit disguised as a living person, carrying a dead baby and begging for help. It forced me to break the first taboo: reading the bones of the dead.

Now I am bound by a debt to the dead, and the curse has begun. What follows are deadly ghost weddings, paper effigies summoning souls, and a brutal sacrifice hidden deep in Fengzhen's history, sealed by a contract known as the Ghost-Eye Betrothal. Behind my grandmother's disappearance seems to lurk an ancient and immense horror. Joining forces with Officer Qin, who does not believe in ghosts but harbors secrets of his own, I must use my bone-reading powers to survive the ever-emerging uncanny “living people” and their deadly rules, uncover Fengzhen's many taboos, and find my grandmother...

And what will be waiting at the door when it knocks next?