The Sesi family of Cordova, Alaska has been dealing with the supernatural for generations: werewolves eating cattle, vampires taking refuge on fishing boats, things that come out with the aurora borealis. Kodiak Sesi, youngest of the family, has been receiving threatening anonymous texts all summer — and hasn't told her brothers. When the new foreman of the family gold mine shows up with secrets of his own, her carefully maintained privacy explodes.

Kodiak Sesi is twenty-something, sharp-tongued, and fully aware of how dangerous her family's work is — which makes her silence about the anonymous texts all the more telling. Her brother Valdez, who takes over the narrative in book two, is a decade-burdened patriarch carrying responsibility for everyone around him while trying to figure out what to do with the woman who suddenly keeps appearing everywhere he goes. Both are drawn with warmth and humor that keeps the supernatural stakes from feeling overwhelming.

Across two books, the series moves between Kodiak's perspective and her eldest brother Valdez's, exploring the Sesi family from the inside — the weight of responsibility, the secrets each sibling keeps from the others, and how impossible it is to protect the people you love when the dangers are real and the cost of failure is death. The Alaskan setting is used with specificity and affection, a world where the supernatural feels like a natural extension of landscape that is already extreme.