FBI agent Lily Yu is living at Nokolai Clanhome with her fianc , lupi Rule Turner, when an intruder penetrates their territory, stealing the prototype of a magical device the clan hopes will be worth a fortune--if a few bugs can be worked out . . .
But the prototype can be dangerously erratic, discharging a bizarre form of mind magic and it looks like the thief wants it for that very side effect. Worse, whoever stole the device didn t learn about it by accident. There s a Nokolai traitor in their midst.
Lily and Rule have to find the traitor, the thief, and the prototype. One job proves easy when the thief calls them--and his identity rocks Rule s world.
As they race to recover their missing property, they find Robert Friar s sticky footprints all over the place. Robert Friar--killer, madman, and acolyte of the Old One the lupi are at war with--an Old One whose power is almost as vast as her ambition to rock the entire world . . .