It began with blood and death. And Vicki Nelson， PI was at the scene. The victim had been brutally， inhumanly opened up. Messy work. She d had to cover the corpse with her coat. It had sort of made her feel involved. Now Vicki is caught up in the deadly pursuit of a mass murderer with an inhuman appetite for mayhem and destruction. And her advisor on the case is doing nothing to dampen her growing sense of foreboding. But then， with a being of unspeakable evil stalking the city， only Vicki Nelson would ally herself to Henry Fitzroy， the illegitimate child of Henry VIII and a five-hundred-year-old vampire.