When a village baker begins dreaming of crimes before they happen, he becomes the unwitting pawn in a killer’s dark collection.

Samuel Hartwell has kneaded dough and served his Yorkshire village faithfully for thirty years. But when terrifying visions of theft and murder begin plaguing his dreams—visions that come true with disturbing accuracy—the fifty-two-year-old baker fears he’s losing his mind.

Desperate for answers, Samuel turns to The Liminal Academy, where young Tom Mills recognizes the signs immediately: late-blooming prophetic abilities, powerful but dangerously uncontrolled.

As Tommy teaches Samuel to master his newfound gift, they uncover a chilling truth. Someone is using Samuel’s published warnings to identify and steal blessed objects, building a collection of “death omens” that will culminate in murder.

The target? Sixteen-year-old Sarah Fletcher, visiting for the village May Fair, wearing her grandmother’s silver hair comb—a blessed heirloom that will become the ultimate death omen if taken from her corpse at the prophesied moment.

With only two weeks until the fair, the Academy must train Samuel to control his visions, awaken Sarah’s own hidden medium abilities, and stop a sophisticated killer who’s murdered three times before.

But Edmund Thorne is no ordinary thief—he’s a collector of souls who understands that prophecy can be twisted into a weapon.

As the May Fair approaches and the threads of fate converge on the church tower at sunset, Samuel must embrace the gift he’s feared all his life.

Because this time, prophecy isn’t about predicting death—it’s about preventing it.