While Pepper plans on having an eternity to spend her happily ever after with Emerick Lowrance, getting to the wedding is proving to be a problem. Between numerous women rising from their graves into their second lives and a surge of miscreants attacking innocents on the street, she has her hands full with brood business.

Rather than dwell on the factors delaying their wedding ceremony, she resumes her hunt to make her city a safe place for all. One of her prey, a serial killing rapist, provides the vital clue she needs to end Breckenan's reign of terror. To win vengeance for herself and his other victims, she must exhume the past, uncover her father's secrets, and embrace the true strength of her heritage. 

What she doesn't know leads her into a deadly dance, and even a single misstep will doom her, her brood, and the love of her unlife.