About the book: year / New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns us to the shadow of a deadly and beautiful world ruled by angels, vampires serve them, and One huntress must escape the darkness to survive. A severed head with a characteristic tattoo on its cheek should become the Guild's business, but instinct, honed by centuries of vampire life, tells Dmitry to take matters into his own hands. There is something perverted in this death, something hinting at things from long ago... But Dmitry’s desire to get to the truth is nothing compared to the reaction to the huntress who was assigned to decipher the tattoo. After a brutal attack, Honor almost died, and was not ready to face the seductive vampire, who is also the right hand of the archangel. A vampire who is as cruel as he is sensual... A vampire who she secretly pined for from the moment she began to understand exactly what emotions he awakens in her. When desire turns into a dangerous compulsion that could destroy them both, it becomes clear that the past does not want to stay in the past. Something is sneaking and hunting... And it won't stop until it brings to life a blood-soaked nightmare..