Unmarked souls are vanishing, and only a Keeper can stop the slaughter. The problem? Ru Roberts has no idea she's the one. Raised by adoptive parents who told her she "ruins everything," Ru built a quiet life in Reaper's Hollow as a beloved fourth-grade teacher. Her only curse: an inability to touch electronics without triggering flames. That fragile peace shatters when Cutter Michaels, charming and devastatingly handsome, takes the classroom across the hall. Cutter brings impossible claims. He insists Ru is the lost Keeper—daughter of a half-angel and half-demon—and the only person who can locate three portals that Reapers use to smuggle souls into the Underworld. His story sounds delusional, yet the blue fire he conjures from his palms makes it impossible to dismiss. As Ru's dreams grow stranger, plagued by encounters with Thanatos himself, the most formidable Reaper in existence, she begins questioning everything she's been told about her identity. Joining Cutter could unlock her true heritage, reveal her biological parents, and awaken the dormant powers within her bloodline. But it might also mean surrendering herself to Thanatos's dark designs. With three portals hidden and unmarked souls slipping away to their doom, Ru must choose between the safety of her ordinary life and the dangerous truth of who she was always meant to be. Ruin's Lot launches the Reaper's Hollow series, chronicling Ru Roberts's journey from ordinary teacher to powerful Keeper as she reclaims her past, discovers her origins, and masters the supernatural abilities coursing through her veins.