After a heartrending night of loss and blood, Miranda Grey-Solomon, vampire Queen of the South, now stands in the ruins of her life determined to pick up the pieces and move on. David, her husband and Prime, is missing and presumed dead and Miranda is lost without her soul mate by her side. But she has little time to grieve as enemies surround her. Between vampires trying to take advantage of a Queen without a Prime, incursions by a mysterious organisation of humans known as the Order of the Morningstar and the continuing threat from the Shadow World, time is running out.