At the ask for from the Coven, Mira finds herself in Venice with Danaus “because of their own safety.” Yet, the house of the nightwalker rulers is usually anything but secure when Mira discovers that this Coven has made a cope with a splinter faction within the naturi. Mira must deftly maneuver through Coven politics while protecting Danaus from both nightwalkers and the naturi. And prior to the end, she must discover a way to avoid the rising naturi without being stabbed in the trunk by her personal kind.