Harper Rayne makes a living walking into the dark with a loaded weapon and coming back out alive. As one of the S.P.A.'s youngest enforcement agents, she knows the rules of Phoenix's supernatural underworld: monsters can wear beautiful faces, missing girls are never just statistics, and mercy can get you killed. But the latest disappearances lead Harper toward something far older than the vampires she hunts. Jordan and Soren pull her toward two very different kinds of trust, each dangerous in its own way, and neither man is willing to stand aside when the threat circling Harper becomes personal. Then an ancient presence begins calling her by a name she does not understand: Ember. The closer Harper gets to the truth, the less certain she becomes about where the enemy ends and her own blood begins. Violence follows her through vampire territory, secret rituals, and battles where ordinary weapons stop being enough. Desire becomes tangled with loyalty. Protection becomes something more intimate. And every answer about the power waking inside Harper creates a worse question about what she is becoming. If she accepts the bonds forming around her, she may gain the strength to survive what is coming. If she rejects them, she may face an enemy that already knows her better than she knows herself. Harper has spent her life hunting monsters, but the next one she must understand may be the one waiting inside her.
Harper Rayne makes a living walking into the dark with a loaded weapon and coming back out alive. As one of the S.P.A.'s youngest enforcement agents, she knows the rules of Phoenix's supernatural underworld: monsters can wear beautiful faces, missing girls are never just statistics, and mercy can...