The great War has been fought and won. Jaenelle is Witch and Queen. And sometimes...just Jaenelle. Lover and wife to Daemon Sadi and beloved member of the SaDiablo family, Jaenelle has a playful sense of humor. When she informs the family that she's creating a "Spooky House" for the amusement of the Landen (non-Blood) villagers, as well as her family and friends, the family holds its collective breath to keep from groaning in unison. Besides respecting her as Queen, they are all crazy in love with this woman.

As the house nears completion, invitations arrive via messenger to close family members. Former assassin and courtesan, Surreal SaDiablo, receives an invitation and with a Warlord Prince as escort, arrives at the house ready to be both entertained and horrified. Surreal and Rainier enter the house with a small company of village children only to find themselves trapped in a nightmare world of tangled webs and deadly illusion. The house is a trap created not by Jaenelle, but by a madman who's using the house both as a means of revenge against the SaDiablo Family and as research for a mystery novel he's planning.

Jaenelle, Daemon and Lucivar race to rescue Surreal and her companions from the horrors of the house that features the webs of three powerful Black Widow Witches, two of whom currently inhabit the house as the Demon Dead. As Jaenelle and Daemon struggle to untangle the webs, Lucivar favors a more direct approach and enters the house himself fully shielded and ready to take apart both the house and the lunatic who designed it. In a world where cruelty has been a way of life for generations, "the author" is about to find out what it means to challenge the most powerful family in the Realms.

TANGLED WEBS is a triumphant and powerful return to the Realms of the Blood. The family is gathered, challenged and rises to the challenge with all the power they can muster. Only a crazy person would mess with the SaDiablos. And as if this new novel wasn't gift enough, as a bonus, there's a short story featuring Surreal from her assassin days.