'How exciting,' she said. 'The songbird has talons. But what a price she will pay for them.'
Mische lost everything when she was forcibly Turned into a vampire, including the love of the sun god to whom she had devoted her life. Now, she faces execution for murdering the vampire prince who Turned her.
When Mische's life is spared by Asar, the bastard prince of the House of Shadow, she is forced into a mission worse than execution: a journey into the underworld to resurrect the god of death. Mische's sun god offers her a chance at salvation - but only if she betrays Asar.
As they travel the treacherous path to the underworld together, Mische can't deny her forbidden attraction to Asar. When the moment of her betrayal arrives, Mische will be forced to choose between bending to her sun god's will or embracing the call of the darkness a decision that could ruin her entirely...
