• Ryan is reunited with her mentor only to discover that Victor has fallenill, an impossibility for One who is both invulnerable and immortal! While herhuman companion, Dr. Susan Ryerson, continues her examination of their uniqueanatomies with the hope of discovering what is wrong with her liege,simultaneously, word comes that the Grand Council has been reconvened. Theancient ones who sit upon the Council call upon Ryan to conduct a millennialpurge — a controlled hunt in which the least desirable of their Kind areculled. Now, Ryan is brought face-to-face with the oldest of her Kind, and withseduction on an unimagined level!