Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, has released the Damned, tortured souls from all levels of Hell, to walk the streets as the living dead. A dark chaos leaks onto Earth, taking the form of a deadly contagion that not even the Neteru team can handle. One touch from these deadly creatures infects a human, driving him to madness, death…and worse. This time, Damali Richards, the Vampire Huntress (aka the millennium Neteru), Carlos, and the Guardians...

When Sasha's mate and fellow Shadow Wolf, Max Hunter, falls ill with a virus, he becomes dangerous and possibly deadly.

A member of an elite group of werewolf attack survivors trained as Special Ops soldiers, Sasha Trudeau returns from a solo mission to find her team missing. Sasha soon uncovers government conspiracies, double-dealing vampires, and stunning revelations about her true identity.

As Sasha investigates a series of murders, she finds herself caught in a web of danger and deception--and it will take everything she's got to stay alive.

"The last fight between the werewolf clans spilled onto the streets of New Orleans--and now the whole city's on red alert. Martial law has gone into effect. Mediums, ghost hunters, and other supernatural pundits have taken over the media, swarming the Big Easy to expose the hard truth about lycanthropes. And to make matters worse, a beastly killer is clawing up humans... Secret government operative Sasha Trudeau doesn't like what she's seeing--a series...

All hell breaks loose-literally-in the complex sixth installment of Banks's scorchingly hot-blooded vampire series (after 2005's The Forbidden). Banks gets down with her multicultural cast, as deeply concerned with their relationships as she is with their sacred mission: to vanquish evil and keep hell in hell and not messing with earth folks.