In the twenty-fifth book, necromancer and vampire hunter Anita Blake learns that everyone sees evil in their own way. Anita has never seen Damian, her vampire servant, in such a state. Dawn does not take him to the peaceful death he so desperately needs. Instead, he is tormented by violent nightmares and bloody sweats. Now that Damian is so vulnerable, Anita needs him most. The vampire who created him, the one who tortured him for centuries, may have lost control, allowing criminal vampires to begin to commit atrocities, violating one of their strictest prohibitions. Some would say that love is the main motivator, but hatred also helps to do its thing case. And when Anita joins her friend Edward to stop the massacre, Damian will be by her side, even if it means returning to the country that gave birth to all his nightmares, a place that couldn't be any less hospitable to vampires, mercenaries and necromancers.