When thirteen-year-old Sadie finds her mother's note saying she has to "get away for awhile," Sadie is left to manage a bed and breakfast in the Welsh countryside by herself, while at the same time trying to cover her mother's absence.

"Faced with the choice of being married to a strange spirit or being made into dinner, Aoi decides to create a third option for herself! Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather's ability to see spirits--and his massive debt to them! Now she's been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill. Her options: marry the head of the inn her grandfather trashed, or get eaten by demons. But Aoi isn't the type to let spirits push...