Duncan Kincaid didn’t have time to recover from a local war against vampires, sorcerers, and a ridiculously fast wizard when he got entangled in an investigation into missing people—only for it to turn out to be a series of ritual murders. The body of the last victim was found, and it is a vampire woman. The town is boiling again: old enemies are plotting new schemes, and one of them even returned from the other side as a ghost.