DI Jack Drummond stared at the horned figure hanging above the altar and shuddered. The man was dead, surrounded by the mumbo jumbo of devil worship. It had all the trappings of a ritual killing.

And it was just the first!

Sienna Wilde's son, Pagan, has been murdered and her daughter, Raven, is missing.

So why are the authorities trying to shut down Drummond's investigation just when he and his detectives, Nick Rougvie and Kes Crombie, are beginning to untangle the knots?

Are they intervening to protect Sienna'a partner, self-proclaimed Highland Seer, Elias Finlay? The couple are High Priest and Priestess of their coven and claim to have powers to control those around them. But do they? Could they be connected to the killings? Or is somebody deliberately staging the murder scenes to guide detectives away from the truth?