The final book in the Across the Veil of Monsters series ends with Ava.

Ava has one survival skill, and it's not fighting. It's playing dead.

So when she wakes up in an underwater cavern surrounded by shape-shifting, blue-gray alien-looking creatures with tentacles and absolutely no interest in explaining themselves, she does the only thing that's ever worked: she goes still, plays comatose, and waits. For three days. While slowly starving. It's not a great plan, but it's the only one she's got.

Unfortunately, "wait it out" stops working. And their leader, Kerios, makes the irreversible call to bind his mind to hers just to find out what's going on in there. Now he's in her head, she might be in his, and neither of them asked for any of this. There might also be an ominous swarm of many deadly mythical creatures locking everyone in...that showed up the same day Ava did. Not ideal.

Ava has spent her whole life being the quiet one—the planner, the watcher, the one who keeps everyone else afloat. Kerios has spent centuries being the leader everyone needs him to be. Somewhere between breaking an ancient kraken code, surviving a power struggle that could sink an entire civilization, perhaps the world, and figuring out what it means to finally be seen, Ava has to decide if there's a version of herself that doesn't disappear.

This book contains depictions of drowning, violence, gore, and possession. It also includes portrayals of mental health crises such as dissociation. And—as the title suggests—there is plenty of hot, hot monster love.