Rosenkranz is dead, along with her host Paisey. Morales is convinced that the killer is a vampire hunter, and Paisey was merely collateral damage. Why else would Rosenkranz have been completely decapitated? But as Kit investigates Rosenkranz's host, she discovers that Paisey wasn't a human at all, but an immigrant from the Realm of the Faerie. Kit becomes convinced that Paisey was the real target. Rosenkranz just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Morales doesn't believe in faeries, and thinks that Kit's faerie killer theory is just a crazy story. Until Kit goes missing...