After suffering an injury that leaves her incapable of doing her regular duties, Deportations Officer Cadence Hart is forced to take a break from policing the dead and go on regular response. But a series of mysterious shop burglaries might just be her department after all. This is a prequel novelette for the Hart and Soul series, set in a world where the dead have escaped from Hell, and it's Cadence's job to police them, armed with a flaming sword and helped by her Demon partner.