Before the Devil Breaks You

Manhattan, 1927. Speakeasies glow, jazz fills the clubs, and the city is partying as though nothing can touch it. Then the dead start to return. The Diviners, a group of young people with strange gifts, are still recovering from a supernatural sleeping sickness that took two of their friends early on. They have had enough of being told half-truths and are determined to learn where their powers come from, even while a new menace closes in.

On Ward's Island, away from the noise of the city, a mental hospital houses the lingering spirits of patients nobody remembers. These ghosts have troubling connections to the man in the stovepipe hat, the figure known as the King of Crows. Reports of murder and possession arrive from across the city, and New York teeters on the edge of panic. The Diviners have no choice but to join forces, confront the restless spirits in the asylum, and come face to face with the King of Crows.

As buried secrets from the past surface, the group's loyalty and friendships are strained, romance becomes uncertain, and each Diviner begins to doubt what they thought they knew. Dark forces are gathering in every direction, and the struggle over the nation's very soul may cost the Diviners everything.