"When Grace Oliver leaves Portland for Austin, Texas, to help her father, Lou, recuperate from a car accident, she expects to stay just a few weeks. Since her mother's divorce thirty years ago, Grace has hovered on the periphery of the Oliver family. But now she sees a chance to get closer to her half-brothers and the home she's never forgotten. But the Olivers are facing a crisis. Tests reveal that Lou, a retired college professor whose sharp tongue...

After traveling through the Dance of te Gods to reach the land of Geall, the circle perpares the people of Geall to defeat Lility's vampire army in the less than a month that remains, while Moira follows the tradition of her people and prepares the crown before leading them into battle while her thoughts turn to the one she loves, the vampire Cian.