When Master Louis DuCane summons him to Mt. Pleasant, Atticus Nasir—the last surviving Necromancer of the Cultus Mortis—comes to destroy a blight that is stripping souls and life from the local humans.
He arrives prepared for monstrous revenants and the underworld power driving them, yet nothing readies him for Wyatt Price, the stoic vampire guard assigned to protect him at the Palace of DuCane.
Haunted by the slaughter of his former coven, Wyatt knows at once that the mystic is his Fated beloved, but he buries that claim behind professional distance, convinced he is unworthy of Atticus.
A treacherous attack in the coven watchtower breaks Wyatt's control into fierce protective rage, forcing both men to surrender to a passionate, undeniable bond.
As the demonic blight intensifies and a horrific entity claws free from Pine Ridge Cemetery, they must fight side by side if they hope to banish the darkness without losing each other.
