Discover where it all began... Never mate with humans. Never tell them of our existence. And never kill one of our own. For time immemorial, the Old Races adhered to these laws... ...except, of course, when they did not. Tales of hidden yeti, mad harpies, and selkies who dared to risk all reveal the path that led to the Negotiator Trilogy... ...and most of all, of Sarah Hopkins, a beauty born to London's slaughterfields centuries ago, whose love for the dragonlord Janx and master vampire Daisani ravaged a city. This is the story of London burning. This is the story of the Year of Miracles.