Dante and Heather fight separate struggles for their lives against two different foes, fight to find their way back to each other. Dante, lost to his shattered past and his pain, his bond with Heather the only thing keeping him sane, searches for Heather and the man who stole her. Dante is also tilting between his own sense of self and Bad Seed programmed S, between the never-ending Road and the Great Destroyer. And becoming both.<BR><BR>Power plays and intrigue intensify as knowledge of what Dante truly is - a True Blood/Fallen Maker - ripples through nightkind and mortal societies. The Cercle de Druide wish to guide Dante to proper godhood with themselves as his advisors; the Shadow Branch covet his world-altering power, power they could command with a single word to trigger Dante's programming; while the Coneil du Sang plan to use Dante to strengthen and purify vampire bloodlines. And the Fallen wait for his return to Gehenna to heal their dying land.<BR><BR>Lucien and Von engage in a desperate search for Dante and Heather, knowing that time is quickly running out, and that the fate of three worlds - mortal, nightkind, and Fallen - pivots around Dante as he struggles to piece together his shattered psyche and gain control of his power before he rips all three worlds asunder.