Con’s job is recovering rare books and artifacts, and learning all their secrets before handing them over to be archived. He never expected to find a little girl with an affinity to speak to the dead, and with her a strange symbol for a cult long since thought extinct. Luca is on the verge of a change he’s feared for a long time, and he worries his lovers won’t want him anymore once his darker side is set free. With Con newly returned with a little girl in need of protection, and Sam trying to help the most powerful witch in the world solve a slew of murders, Luca feels powerless to stop the rising change. But someone is in control of a demon and trying to capture the power of all the Pillars of Magic. Can the trio uncover the end goal before dark magic tears them all to pieces? Tags: A homicidal vampire, a hedonistic dhampir, and a hired assassin find themselves adopting a pink loving goth girl who sees dead people. But the trio is besties with a slew of powerful male witches including the elements of water and earth, even a necromancer. Can the unlikely group protect the peach princess from the bad guys?