Willow returns to her Baltimore with a plan to rebuild her business and settle in to play nice with the other witches in the area, nothing more.But when bodies start dropping across the city and one set of supernaturals begin blaming another, she volunteers to use her powerful abilities help stop the killer, and hopefully stem a war. The last thing anyone needs is an entire city on the hunt for anyone who's different.But what happens when Willow's promise to help costs her a lot more than simply some blood and a few sleepless nights? There are a lot of things in this world that can break her heart and leave both her and those around her bleeding.

The game is in motion now, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. The city has fallen into a rather quiet chaos. Shifters are threatening vampires over murders that they had nothing to do with. The delicate leadership system that worked so well before is falling apart, and a storm is coming. Owen is the son of the Suzerain and a rock star. He's instantly noticeable by the public and no slouch in the power department, so when he goes missing, no one can figure out how it happened or where he is. Noah is a powerful shifter with a conscience, reluctantly involved in a plot that he knows it wrong. He knows that he needs to do something, but has no idea what. What do you do when you rebellion might cost you everything you've ever known? The world around them is closing in on all sides, and that makes investigating a kidnapping that much harder. But there is no way that Owen can be left to the wolves, so to speak. There is someone or something working against them, and they'd better figure out who or what it is before they can do anymore damage.

As the city begins its slow descent into chaos, who would have guessed that the one to slow the progress would be a agent with a smart mouth and an itchy trigger finger. Owen sits unconscious, hidden away from the world that seeks to find him before he is well and truly dead. His disappearance has raised questions that some can't answer and some don't want to answer. Questions that lead Chloe to a bigger, badder plan of attack than simply a vampire kidnapping. One that she's not sure she can stop in time.How do you stop the shadowy organization that you didn't know existed until just a few days ago?The ball has been in play for much longer than anyone was aware, and starting a game late is a bad way to get the upper hand. Chloe is going to have to learn who she can trust and who she can't before it's too late to matter, and the world folds in on her.Then again, there is no one else more qualified to stop a war.