Betrothed by her mother to a demon before she was born, and forced into a marriage with a man she has never met, eighteen-year-old half witch Beth Hall crosses paths with a fallen angel named Malachai and a demon named Aztos.

Alice may have turned eighteen, but she realizes she is still very much a child emotionally. Understanding she can't keep the men in her life dangling on the end of a string forever, she pushes them all away in order to find herself. The timing couldn't be worse. The mysterious vampire Dmitri is an ever-looming threat, and the wraiths he controls seem unstoppable.

It was a woman who started it all. Her love was the one thing he never expected would ignite the war and bring about the destruction of all humanity. Love – weak, disgusting human love, would be the one thing that would bring about the war that would leave vampires into glory.