One second, Lyra Starling is walking home from the grocery store. The next, she's in a fantasy world where gods are real and power comes at a steep price. Lyra discovers she's a priestess; a member of a caste with the rare ability to see and speak to the deities that walk the world. While she was nothing special on Earth, here, people bow and scrape to her every whim. But her new status comes with responsibilities, and the dangerous thing about being able to see gods is that they notice her, ...