Fourth in the “perfect” (The Reading Café) NY Instances bestselling series from the author of Eyesight in Silver.

For centuries, the Others and humans have got lived hand and hand in uneasy tranquility. However when humankind oversteps its bounds, others must decide how much humanity they’re willing to tolerate-both within themselves and of their community…

Because the Others allied themselves with the cassandra sangue, the delicate yet powerful human bloodstream prophets about Marked in Flesh who had been becoming exploited by their own kind, the sensitive dynamic between humans and Others changed. Some, like Simon Wolfgard, wolf shifter and innovator from the Lakeside Courtyard, and blood prophet Meg Corbyn, start to see the new, closer companionship as beneficial-both individually and practically.

But not everyone is convinced. Several radical humans is normally wanting to usurp property through some violent episodes on the Others. What they don’t understand is that there are older and more threatening makes than shifters and vampires protecting the property that is one of the Others-and those forces are prepared to do whatever is essential to protect what is theirs…