Bestselling author, according to the New York Times, Nalini Singh brings us back to the shadow of a deadly and beautiful world ruled by angels, vampires serve them, and one hunter must get out of the darkness in order to survive. A severed head with a characteristic tattoo on the cheek should be the work of the Guild, but the instinct, honed by centuries of vampire life, prompts Dmitry to take matters into his own hands. In this death there is something distorted, something hinting at the affairs of years gone by... But Dmitry’s desire to get to the truth is nothing compared to the reaction to the hunter, who was assigned to decipher the tattoo. After a brutal attack, Honor almost died, and was not ready to meet the seductive vampire, who is also the right hand of the archangel. A vampire who is cruel as much as he is sensitive... a vampire she has secretly withered from the moment she began to understand what emotions he awakens in her. When the desire turns into a dangerous compulsion that can destroy both of them, it becomes clear that the past does not want to remain in the past. Something sneaks up and hunts... and it won’t stop until it revives a blood-soaked nightmare.