Mirren Kincaid remembers the vampire he used to be – and he’s not really going back. As the Slayer, Mirren offered the Vampire Tribunal as its most creative and ruthless executioner. Then he refused a destroy order and finally found himself the protector and second-in-command from the relaxing enclave of Penton, Alabama. As civil battle threatens to use in the vampire globe over the scarcity of untainted human blood, the Tribunal wants its slayer back – and provides sent a beautiful witch to retrieve him. Descended from a robust shaman, Glory Cummings is intended to revive Mirren to his bloodthirsty ways as the Tribunal’s assassin. But Glory doesn’t visit a killer when she talks about Mirren; she sees a vampire haunted by his past. Though her objective is to turn him into a monster, she hopes her magic touch can heal the person she’s suddenly falling for. However the Tribunal hasn’t looked kindly upon defiance.