Although the battle for the Earth’s balance teeters on a precipice, Maysun has stepped down from her influential role and bestows her world-changing power to her lover, Eoghan. Days later, she realizes she may have made her decision much too soon. Charles Dunning, head of the underground vampire network known as the Shévet ha Dam, is on the trail of Maysun’s only child, Sana. A strangely empowered creature herself, Sana lives half of her life awake and in fear, the other half in a shadowy world hardly remembered. With Dunning determined to overrun the world with the Maleficence, vampires Vivian and Michael once again find themselves caught up in the global fight to ensure the world remains in balance.