New York City's only legal counsel to the fabled Old Races, Margrit Knight, is level headed in all matters extraordinary. But when she's summoned to negotiate a peace treaty among rival factions, her own mortal world threatens to fall apart. Margrit's been in hot water before, but reentering the underworld brings a new set of problems. Also a new set of friends and enemies, including a ruthless vampire mobster, a dragonlord who won't take no for an answer, a band of subversive selkies-and Alban Korund, the über-hot gargoyle who got her into this mess . . . and whose granite-strong touch still haunts her every fantasy.