After a divorce and the suicide of her troubled sister, Lilith Pierce sets about the responsible task of cleaning up Eva's final mess.  However, the circumstances of Eva's death are suspicious and hearken back to a prophetic conversation.  Meticulous journals, self-mutilation, and whispered phone calls.  A conspiracy, a cult, or something worse?  Perhaps Lilith is too much the thinker, perhaps she is mad with grief, but she cannot help but find the devil in the details.  Soon her search becomes ... more »

After a divorce and the suicide of her troubled sister, Lilith Pierce sets about the responsible task of cleaning up Eva's final mess.  However, the circumstances of Eva's death are suspicious and hearken back to a prophetic conversation.  Meticulous journals, self-mutilation, and whispered phone calls.  A conspiracy, a cult, or something worse?  Perhaps Lilith is too much the thinker, perhaps she is mad with grief, but she cannot help but find the devil in the details.  Soon her search becomes a maddening obsession, until a stranger confronts her at the funeral.  Drawn to the man in a way she cannot explain, Lilith seeks out his help and begins to uncover a culture woven into the fabric of  history, a culture founded on an idea of peace that somewhere, somehow, went horribly wrong.  She always believed that vampires were blood-sucking, self-loathing, cape-wearing  fictions, but too late, finds she was very much mistaken and that Eva got the last laugh.  Less