Aria Solano: your regular 22-year-old, trying to navigate life as best as any twenty-something-year-old can, between balancing school, work, friends, and the occasional tendency to sense entities dwelling beyond the boarder of this world and the next.

Her life takes an exciting (terrifying) detour after receiving the "death" card in a tarot reading, leading her to a chance encounter with members of HOLIC: an underground faction of spiritually gifted misfits dedicated to using their abilities to level the playing field between the forces of light and darkness in the world of the living.

When Aria becomes targeted by a powerful, ancient god of calamity in the form of an alluring young man, questions about her fate and true identity arise as the lines between "good" and "evil" become blurred.