After inheriting the dark Van Alen Legacy, Schuyler fled
to Florence with her forbidden love, Jack. Now the two of
them must embark on the mission Schuyler was destined to
complete: to find and protect the five remaining gates
that guard earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silver Bloods.
Back in New York, Mimi has been elected Regent of a
crumbling coven. Struggling with her heartache over the
loss of Kingsley and with her overwhelming desire to
destroy Jack, she must focus all of her energy on a
perilous new threat. Vampires are being abducted and their
captors are planning to burn them alive online…for all the
world to see. Help arrives in the form of Deming Chen, a
Venator from Shanghai, who must untangle the web of
deceptions before the killers strike again.
As the young vampires struggle for the survival of the
coven, they uncover a deadly secret, a truth first
discovered by Schuyler’s mother during the Renaissance but
kept buried for centuries. And as the Blue Blood enclave
weakens yet further, fate leads Schuyler to a terrible
choice that will ultimately map the destiny of her heart.