Since the death of his shellan, Torment is a grief-stricken shadow of the vampire leader he once was. Brought back to the Brotherhood by a selfish fallen angel, he once again fights with a merciless vengeance... and is unprepared for another tragedy. Seeing his beloved in his dreams - trapped in a cold, desolate underworld - he turns to an angel to save his former mate, but he alone must go through a desperate path to free her. As the war with the lessers rages on and a new clan of vampires encroaches on the throne of the Blind King, Thor struggles between an unforgettable past and a future he doesn't know if he can live with... but from which he can't turn his back.