A borrowed spirit. A broken world. A girl who can't give up.In a village where Spirit Guides guard the fragile balance between the Human World and the Spirit World, Maia has always fallen short of expectations. But when a healing mission goes terribly wrong and her mother is consumed by a fallen spirit, Maia is left to live with the guilt: she was there. She survived. And her mother did not.

Until the day Maia finds her mother's spirit familiar-a shape-shifting white fox named Jojo-alive. If Jojo survived it can only mean one thing: Maia's mother is also still alive... somewhere in the Spirit World.

But no one else believes it.

With borrowed power and a flicker of hope, Maia ventures back into the Spirit World. But what starts as a desperate search turns into something more, as Maia realizes she may have to choose between saving her mother or uncovering a conspiracy that could destroy both worlds.