***TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains adult content - blood, sex, violence, bad language and the occasional cliché. Continue at your own risk.*** The war has ended, but the bad blood remains. Long ago, the vampires took control. Now, they run the cities and make the rules with little regard for the race they slaughtered to get there. With no rights and fewer options, some humans serve themselves up to the elite undead in exchange for protection. The rest take their chances with the ferals outside the city walls. It's miserable, but misery can be lucrative if you're clever enough. Callie Flynn commands a small team at DWM - a strictly-human mercenary group in the city outskirts. They take contracts; they eliminate beasties; they get paid. It's a better life than most free humans get. But when a scout disappears on a mission she ordered, she realizes her shoot-from-the-hip attitude may have cost her more than a promotion. Seeking answers in the disappearance, she breaks procedure and makes contact with a forbidden source: the vampire Judge of the city. Augustin is as frightening as he is fascinating, but he is also pragmatic. With her back against a wall, Callie makes an agreement that could either set things right or set everything ablaze. The line between friend and foe corrodes the further she digs, forcing her to question her judgment and loyalties at every turn. At the bottom of it all, she uncovers a truth more twisted and far-reaching than anything she could've ever expected. A truth that could cost her the thing she values most - her humanity.