They were just a couple of hippies. Until the music turned sacred.

Loretta didn’t ask for visions.
Didn’t ask for rhythm that rattled the dirt under her feet.
All she wanted was to dance, breathe, and be left alone with a man who smelled like incense and trouble.

Kaito was soft-spoken, barefoot, and full of lullabies—and lies.
She thought he was just another wandering soul with good hands and better silences.
But Kaito was a Sonter: a bounty hunter trained to track, bind, and break magic.

One gig. One bad choice.
And suddenly the floodgates between performance and power are wide open.

Now the stage is a battlefield.
The crowd, a cult.
And love? The most dangerous ritual of all.

To survive, they’ll have to unlearn the love they built in peace tents and motel rooms—
and remember the kind they’ve carried through lifetimes.
Not something lost.
Just something waiting to be sung.

Part 1 follows Loretta "Lettie", a Southern-born conjure girl with a caul-born gift and a mouth full of sass, and Kaito, a barefoot red-haired sound demon with a half-Irish, half-Thai lineage and a talent for contract magic. Together, they travel through a magically altered version of 1960s–70s America, dodging wannabe slashers, making musical deals, and stirring up more trouble than most gods allow.


Accidentally adopt a cursed peacock-hyena banshee-dog named VinylAccept their first real Sonter contract, ranking under a drink-themed magic systemNavigate old love, new lust, dangerous folklore, and the memory of a shared past that still achesCross paths with June, a shapeshifting slime-woman from Brazil with diner charm and a rank of TequilaBattle supernatural threats like Gaslight Chainsaw, demon blues singers, and ward-broken roads soaked in death magic


But Part 1 isn't just action. It's romance, resentment, tension, and tenderness. It's about what it means to love something dangerous — and whether you can love it without losing yourself.


Chapter 20 - Quick summary of what happened in Part 1