For Simone Copeland, everything is changing... She has a new body: stronger and faster than a normal person. And a new mind: colder and more dangerous than a normal person. Now it seems she has another change to deal with. Something even bigger. Even more cataclysmic... A creature so horrifying and powerful that it defies all rational description has just taken her away from her old life, and left her to fend for herself in a place where the rational rules that govern normal reality don't seem to apply. From what Simone can tell, this is a totally different world. An alien world, with its own strange customs. A place where dark rites are performed in the name of evil; where human sacrifice is as ordinary as breathing. What is her place in this realm? How will she escape? How will she learn to use the rules of power in a place where power is the only thing that matters?