**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 her around, and she’s determined to redeem her grandfather’s IOU on her own terms. When staff members from rival inn Orio—ya show up at Tenjin—ya to retrieve Ginji, Aoi isn’t about to let them take her friend. But her impetuous attempt at a rescue ends up with her spirited away to the Southern Lands. Now Aoi must find a way to navigate a new, hostile situation without the support of the friends she’s grown so used to at Tenjin—ya. Good thing she can always count on the power of good food