After Xandra's nasty run in with the Arcadian Council of Witches--where she was almost killed and her boyfriend, Declan, was almost framed for it--her plan is to lay low and figure out why its members would torment the people they are supposed to protect. Declan, temperamental and protective warlock that he is, doesn't feel so reticent. And when violence erupts again, there's no stopping him from pursuing revenge... When a council member is murdered in a fashion that screams dark magic, Declan claims someone else beat him to it. Xandra doesn't want to believe he could commit such a brutal act, but she knows he has a dark side--one that his former love interest Tsura understands better than she ever will. With Tsura back in town, Xandra doesn't know whom to trust. And a killer targeting witches and wizards is still at large...