Owen Zelazny never expected, living in Maranatha City, to live long enough to make this decision. Give up a life of hunting, find a good guy and settle down to a life of domestic debauchery. Pretty sweet deal.

But a city like Maranatha never lets you go so easily.

Even three years after the disaster that nearly cost him his life, the city still has its vicious fangs sunk in the jugular of his destiny, and when Owen finds himself chased by the sadistic and lethally resourceful Tony Caulfield for reasons he can only barely understand, he knows only one thing to do.

With Ruy, his bewildered Latin flame in tow, Owen seeks out Malloy - a man he turned his back on three years earlier, a man who can solve problems and keep them alive...but always at too high a cost.

With the city's deamons coming back to haunt them, Owen and Malloy find that old hanits die hard, and even with a bloodthirsty villain chasing them from London, to Paris, to Shanghai and beyond...