Kirjahaku

After her difficult confrontation against the demonic entity Zozo, summoned by the Hermetic Order of the Astrum Argentum and the Order of the Dragon, private investigator Sam Hain travels to Austria to spend Christmas with her friend and former lover, the vampire Countess Carmilla Karnstein. ​ ​When a string of vampiric murders threatens their peaceful holiday, Sam finds herself torn between love and duty as she contends with the rage of vengeful ghosts.

A string of kidnappings plagues Butcher's Bend. When mysterious statues that resemble the missing children turn up at a warehouse once used by a gorgon sculptor to store art and supplies, federal agents grow suspicious.Lines of an unknown poem and the growing presence of pain and death link this case to two sets of unsolved crimes in Butcher's Bend's history, Sam and Destiny must confront the city's dark past if they hope to aid their client in proving her partner's innocence.As the mystery deepens and a darkness rises, will Sam find the perpetrator before too many young lives suffer, or will death and sorrow follow in the darkness' wake because it hungers?