<p> Las Vegas socialite and otherwordly avenger Joanna Archer gave up everything when she embraced mortality?abandoning her powers and altering her destiny to save a child . . . and a city. Now her former allies are her enemies?and her enemies have nothing to fear. </p> <p> Yet still she is bound to a prophecy that condemns her to roam a nightmare landscape that ordinary humans cannot see and dare not enter. And a beast is on her trail?an insane killer blinded by bloodlust, who's determined to rip much more from Joanna than merely her now-fragile life. Survival is no longer an option in this dark realm where good and evil have blurred into confusing shades of gray?unless she can gather together an army of onetime foes and destroy everything she once believed in. </p>