Eva Wilder's cushy life in Port Pennwood implodes when her government-selected husband is executed for treason. She loses everything and is ordered back to dreary Londo City. The prospect fills her with dread. But as Eva waits for the weekly train, two things happen to derail her. One, she stumbles upon the lone survivor of a shipwreck--a handsome Croatian who claims he's come to the Anglo Territories to kill the king of the vampires. ...