Glittering snow, twinkling lights, carols in the air-Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. Or it would be if Cora Riley wasn't neck-deep in magical crime and double shifts at the Supernatural Cases Division. Two weeks after losing the Sword of Souls, her friends deployed across the nation on top-level missions, Cora finds herself walking the beat alone in DC, wondering if she's the hero of this story after all. Loneliness, exhaustion, and a perplexing romance threaten to drive her back into the darkness she fought so hard to escape. But the pity-party comes to an abrupt end when Cora makes a horrific discovery at headquarters that sends her racing to New York City. There, Jack Alexander's assignment to the Japanese ambassador clicks with Manny Boxer's spontaneous combustion case to reveal a new facet of Eris' plot: an ancient artifact the local vampires are literally dying to get their hands on. The hunt is on to find the Mirror of Ashes. But who is hunting whom? "The Mirror of Ashes" is the third book in the "Forgotten Relics" series.