Private Investigator, Princess Meredith, is heir to a throne, if she can live long enough to claim it. For a deadly game is being played in the Faerie court and whoever produces an heir first wins the crown. Then, in her adoptive home, in the City of Angels, people start dying in mysterious ways.

Meredith Gentry is a private investigator who specializes in supernatural crime. She has, however, a strange secret. She is in fact a faerie princess in hiding. Her aunt wants her back in the faerie world and the penalty for refusal is death.

An evil city, banished into limbo, starts to appear after a thousand years when the once powerful spells that held it there start to wane. Waylander, the assassin hero of some of Gemmell's earlier books, returns, but he has now reached middle aged, and more interested in peace than trouble.

Born of treachery, his name a curse, Bane the Bastard grew up among the warriors of the Rigante. They valued his skills in war, but they feared the violence in his heart. Now seeking the ultimate vengeance against gladiators, he prepares to join battle and fight to save his world.

Welcome back to the world of Meredith Gentry, a twilight world of gods, shapeshifters and immortal souls, a world full of sensuality, wild magic, treacherous deceits and the delicious anticipation of latent powers unleashed...

For centuries the tribes of the Nadir have suffered under the tyranny of their Gothir overlords. Distrustful of one another the tribes await the coming of a Messianic warlord, who will unite them. Into this swirling, chaotic landscape come three men who will change the fate of the continent.