Outcast, orphan, and homeless by choice, Pearle has spent her adult life dodging the fangs of vampires. She’s learned to forego the dubious safety of a home’s threshold—and the death she brings to those who share it with her. Instead, she survives on the streets, staking the monsters back to the afterlife one bloodsucker at a time. But when a powerful vampire sire moves into the city and sets his sights on her, she’ll have to ask for the one thing she’s never needed before: help. Short on options and long on enemies, Pearle agrees to play bait for the local werewolf pack in exchange for protection. But it doesn’t take long before she realizes something is seriously wrong inside the pack. Old resentments simmer beneath the surface, and more than one wolf wouldn’t mind letting the night take her. Worse, the werewolf alpha has a whole other agenda for her, one that makes death by vampire bite look downright appealing. Now a bone fought over by two men in a centuries-old supernatural war, Pearle must figure out a way to escape both factions. . . or risk becoming a monster the likes neither side has ever seen before.