In a future where leadership demands blood, can two outcasts lead their people to a brighter tomorrow?
Tabitha Maslov is the Archon of a besieged Brooklyn.
Staking the former Archon Jeremiah may have handed Tabitha Maslov the reins of power, but that doesn't mean others are willing to accept her leadership. Her motion to shut down the machines pumping pollutants into the sky and end forced donations to the blood banks have other Elders on edge. Members of Jeremiah's former council flout her orders, the Archon Bethania of Manhattan slanders her at every turn, and a rumor spreads through the city that she has awakened the wrath of an ancient Elder council. An unlikely ally offers aid, but even that may not be enough to stop what Tay has set in motion.
With a killer on the loose in Brooklyn, Tay races to find answers about the secretive cabal of vampires that has set its sights on her district. But the cost of saving her city may be higher than she's willing to pay.
Kaiden Ottaker is the Alpha of a divided pack.
He killed Lubok and laid claim to the packs of the East Coast, but Kaiden has been an outcast for a long time. At the Great Eastern Gathering he struggles to unite Shifters who don't trust him. And when a puma comes from the west to offer him a challenge that will legitimize him as Alpha, he has no choice but to take it. But the road to the lost shrine of Shifter legend is long, and the dangers are many. As the journey takes its toll, Kaiden begins to fear that he will never return to New York City.
Down in the depths of an ancient Tomb Kaiden encounters a power he never imagined, and finds himself embroiled in a fight for his life that he isn't sure he can survive.
With their own people turning against them, can Tay and Kaiden face the trials ahead? Or will the backlash against their attempts at change be the end of them both?