Vampire-werewolf heroine Riley Jensen escapes an unknown enemy's breeding pens to kick off the second installment of Arthur's urban fantasy series (following Full Moon Rising). The action and sex come fast and furious as Riley works with her twin brother, her boss at Melbourne's Directorate of Other Races, as well as most of her lovers (who include a vampire with werewolf issues, a werewolf with mixed loyalties, an alpha werewolf and a horse-shifter)...

Riley, a rare hybrid of werewolf and vampire, is in pursuit of an unknown killer who's been using a steamy nightspot as his hunting grounds.

Part vamp, part werewolf, Riley Jenson plays by her own rules, whether itś her stormy love life or her job as a guardian. But when her familyś alpha male demands that she solve the mystery of a vanished girl, Riley can feel a trap closing in around her. Because the job comes with a catch: if Riley fails, her own mother will die.

BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Keri Arthur's Mercy Burns In the darkness, demons come out to play . . . and someone must bring their sins to light. For Riley, solving multiple cases—in a world going mad with human and vampire passions—would have been tough enough. Instead she has two jealous lovers on her hands: Kye Murphy, the amber-eyed werewolf who makes Riley’s wolf blood howl—and Quinn, the cool, elegant vamp who...