<p> The human race is under siege?with shapeshifters, vampires, and half-blood werewolves freely prowling the streets of the world?s cities . . . and Full Bloods about to descend en masse from out of the dark wilderness. The police and the military are helpless, and only the Skinners can forestall the tactical nuke strikes the Army has planned as a last resort. </p> <p> Skinners, partners, lovers, Paige Strobel and Cole Warnecki know Armageddon is at hand, and seek a union with the mysterious European blood hunters, the Gypsy Amriany, as a final, desperate means to preventing the monster apocalypse. But power-mad traitors from the ranks of their own kind could doom humanity?s valiant efforts to survive. And the only possible outcome at the end of the ultimate war is total extinction. But for <i>whom</i> . . . or <i>what</i>? </p>