When Cole’s luck goes bad, it’s chained to the wall, missing fingers, pissing blood into a bucket bad. And his luck had never been worse. Of course, this time his bad luck is his own fault. No one says no to the mob and walks away unscathed. It’s a hard and fast rule that Cole learns the hard way when he’s set up for murder and forced to backstab the girl he loves: Ashley Tinsley. And he can’t even do that right. Before Cole knows it, he’s caught up in a power play and everyone has their hooks in him. The mob wants his head, the police want to string him up by the neck, the city vamps want to grind him under their heel, and worst of all, the Governor wants to send him across the river and into the Rad Lands to bring back an important package. The only thing across the river are the dead. Millions and millions of them. The moment he sets foot in the Rad Lands, they’re after him as well, and they won’t ever stop until they’re drinking his hot blood and feasting on his flesh.