Ailsa has always known she does not belong, raised by a tattooist who inks forbidden magic while a violent hunger for blood wakes inside her.
When her mentor is abducted, she hires Darach, a wandering mercenary hunted by assassins, because she cannot survive the wilds without a protector.
He carries a corrupted tattoo meant to make him invincible; after nightfall it turns him into something feral that no client should trust.
She conceals a thirst that craves violence and blood, including his, while he hides the change so he can reach the only person who might still save him.
Together they press into a haunted wilderness of Celtic myth, guarding one another and lying to one another as her craving and his claws grow harder to contain.
Danger waits in the trees, yet the deadliest threat may be the pair forced to share the path.
