For private investigator Chad Lowe, it begins as a simple request to tie up loose ends, to hunt down the man responsible for the death of a wealthy vampire's mistress. But in a place where light and dark, living and undead collide, nothing is that simple. Now an act of closure is about to drop Chad into the fight of his life against the Russian Mafia and a sadistic pornography ring, a struggle for survival in which even his own love and ally, a vampire enforcer named Anastasia, becomes suspect. And looming over all is the shadow of one man who embodies an evil so grave his name is spoken only in whispers.