One of the cruelest archangels in the world has vanished. No one knows if Lijuan is dead or has chosen to enter the long sleep of an immortal. But as her lands plunge into chaos under a rising tide of vampiric bloodlust, a mysterious and ancient order of angels known as the Luminata calls the entire Cadre together to deliberate on the fate of their territory. Alongside her archangel lover Raphael, Elena, who has been transformed from a Guild member into an angel, heads to the Luminata grounds and senses that not everything is as it seems. Secrets echo from the stone walls of the site, and the deeper Elena delves, the uglier the darkness becomes. Yet neither Raphael nor Elena is prepared for the brutal truths hidden within – truths that will change everything Elena believes she knows about herself. Nothing will ever be the same again.