After he breaks the Seventh Ward, Bane is too weak and ill to use the dark power. Mirra convinces him to go with her to the Lady's Temple so he can be healed. Bane is lost and alone as never before, outcast from the world that raised him and hated in the Land of Light.

Elder Mother Ellese despairs of persuading him to try to save the Overworld, for he has no reason to risk his life to do so. Bane is the Overworld's only hope, but he refuses to undergo the ritual that will strip him of his power and goes to face Arkonen, bent on vengeance.

Rayne dreads the coming of the Crystal Ship and the legendary monster it bears. An Envoy has been to this universe before and destroyed a world, an event almost lost in the mists of time. One man remembers it, however, whose life was changed forever when the first Envoy destroyed his home world. He went on to build the Slave Empire on blood and tears, and changed the fate of millions.

Until today.

A vampire and leader of her bloodline, Prophecy celebrates her Death Day in style with a two night ball. Everyone is there, but all she can think about is getting her mate, Valentine, to unwind for once. When Valentine asks her to leave her own party and wait for him in her room, she sees it as a chance to lure him into bed and work out his kinks.

Flicking through her magic book, she finds spell after spell about love and lust, and is surprised when she discovers one that will make someone into a love slave! Unable to resist the idea of having Valentine at her command, she casts the spell, only things don't go as planned.

Born with strange powers similar to a vampire's, Lilith has spent her life hunting demons for Section Seven. Now, on the very same night that she watches a vampire kill her best friend, she's faced with her worst nightmare.

A client who is not only attractive, but a vampire.

Lincoln, a powerful pure blood vampire, has a problem. The prophecy he's caught up in is coming to pass and his only chance of survival is relying on those he hates most-vampire hunters. It has been foretold that one will save him, a female hunter, and when he meets her, the attraction he feels is both instantaneous and forbidden.