In the village of Marsh Hall, something terrible has happened in the noble lord's house.
Sir Edmund Beake and his family are dead.
What killed them was no man.
The bodies were found drained. The wounds were all wrong.
King Daegon Malakoda dispatches the only man he trusts to uncover the truth.
Lord Kallidus Prynne, the high inquisitor of the royal house.
Because if the killings in Marsh Hall are what they seem, then whatever commited this heinous act hasn't finished feeding.