People are dizzy with wealth and power, demons are attracted by the fire of human souls. But both of them are just puppets of a puppeteer hiding in the darkness. A player for whom the war tearing apart the Holy Lands is nothing more than a way to achieve his own goal. But even ghostly threads leave traces, which means that sooner or later the knights of cloak and dagger will strike back. And even though cold steel is powerless against the creatures of the Abyss, sometimes dirty tricks literally work wonders. Secret service agent Sebastian Marth got another chance, but is he able to outmaneuver the mysterious Reaper? And won’t he ultimately regret the failed walk to the scaffold?