The Ancient world is in chaos. The body of famed model/talk show host/vampire Nekia is discovered by short-lifers after her execution. The Prophetess, seer of the Ancients, is dying. A cabal of Ancients determined to maintain the status quo is willing to kidnap and kill to do so. The high elder orders vampires to gather together in their homelands and hide. And for the first time in his four hundred years, Giorgio Montrosa is in love. Yet there's nothing he can do to protect his beloved Leykin, an enforcer-in-training, when an assignment puts her in the hands of madmen. Because sometimes even being the biggest, baddest enforcer of them all isn't enough.