So much has happened since Ayla entered our lives almost a year ago as our coven's new high priestess. Queens, once thought to be at worst myth and at best extinct, are alive and real. Ayla was the last of her kind until Olivia changed on the battlefield, and I shifted for the first time while fighting a new foe.I'd lived my life content as a normal witch. Now, I'm not only a new breed of Queen, but I'm also a Sin Eater--a species just as rare as Queens. And for the first time.I'm struggling. While I know that my friends have my back, i can't seem to push away the darkness that threatens to consume my very soul.

Connor, dire wolf shifter and a member of the now obsolete Council, won't let me face this darkness alone. Since claiming each other in a very public fashion, he hasn't given me an ounce of breathing room. Not that I want it. But I'm not sure if he's actually helping.We've also made a deal with an arcdemon. Knowing that we need Malick to help us face what's coming doesn't sit well with any of us, but what choice do we have? We're up against the original seven sins, beings so powerful all of the gods and goddesses couldn't destroy them. We're supposed to stop them from breaking out of Hell, but it feels as though we're playing catch up.When the bad guys don't play fair, is it okay if the good guys play just as dirty?.