The immortal races are revealed, the world has changed, and after twenty five years of living in secret after a faked death, the immortal magician David Zane returns home to the life he had been forced to leave behind armed only with a United States citizenship, a government issued home and an eagerness to get back to a normal life. His plans are soon complicated, however, when a newspaper reveals his identity and immortal race to the community at large. Suddenly, Zane finds himself pulled into a police investigation to help with a series of murders by magic of several teenage girls. Utilizing his streetwise skills earned as a mercenary in the underworld he quickly discovers that there is not one killer but many killers, a murderous cult bent on a great demonic ritual whose members secretly span every corner of his home county. In the process of coming to such knowledge Zane finds himself in a violent game of cat and mouse that inevitably places him, as the only magician the police can use or even contact, as the only thing standing between the innocent victims and the Clan of Midnight.