Gareth Cane has serious problems. A Roman goddess wants him dead, for one. A terrifying Greek goddess desires a key he possesses. And his safe-and-sound hideout on Earth? Some bloody vampire has decided to take it for his own. Fortunately, Gareth finds help in the unlikeliest of women. Undercover officer Ginger Lorris has never believed in the supernatural. But after meeting the mysterious Gareth Cane, whose eyes sometimes shift to a smoldering gold and skin to a blistering white mane, belief is easy to come by. Still, discovering the drug dealer she's hunting is actually an ancient vampire who threatens her family, Gareth's life and all of Earth is a little bit hard to swallow. To survive, Gareth and Ginger will need the help of a vampire-hunting werewolf, the cooperation of a Greek goddess who has her own agenda, and perhaps even the sacrifice of something neither of them can conceive.

The hunt for the Reaper has taken Ginger and Gareth into the old world, where socially-awkward trees talk, magic crackles and sizzles and—-recently—-where dead things are not staying dead. The underworld is coming. Finding Death and stopping the underworld from rising means going through an unscrupulous third party consult whose reputation is questionable, facing the fury of Gareth's father who still wants him dead and outrunning the goddess of the night who remains hot on their heels. Along the way, Ginger and Gareth uncover secrets about one another—-secrets that can bring them closer together or may just break them apart. They also discover some things are never meant to be found. This is the second book in The Shifting Truth series. It is recommended that you read the first, THE HUNT, before diving into this one, as the storyline is connected.

Escaping Death is one thing. Cheating him is something else entirely. By unwittingly freeing the Reaper, Gareth Cane and Ginger Lorris have unleashed a terror upon both the old world and Earth. If the walking, talking cadaverous corpse has his way, the underworld will consume everything above. And for Gareth and Ginger, that's simply not acceptable—not when they've just fallen in love. Putting a stop to the Reaper's plans requires them to take a plunge into the underworld itself, to find a goddess who's the key to ending this madness. But sometimes the deeper you dig, the more terrors you uncover.