With Anwen handled, and Eayla safely hidden inside the Narrows, Gunnar Kyle returns to her job as a Hunter commissioned by the VAC. The spike in Risers in London hasn't lessened, if anything, it's getting worse with each day that passes. The VAC has their suspicions about who is behind it, as does Gunnar, but she has to keep what she believes is happening quiet because who she suspects is someone that is near royalty in the VAC circles..The creation of the VAC didn't satisfy Charlaine's thirst for revenge over the death of her father, Vlad Tepes, and Gunnar begins to suspect that she is behind the sudden disappearance of multiple, high profile corpses from the crypts at both Nunhead and Highgate Cemeteries. With war between the Lycans and the VAC an ever present threat, Gunnar accepts a special commission where she knows countless will die, and blood will be spilled, but at what cost will the victory come?