"You followed your heart, and look where it brought you. Makes you wonder if there was something wrong with your heart, doesn''t it?" After six thousand years of captivity, the Grigori are free. With time running out, Ira Binyamin leaps into action, amassing a network of allies to wage all-out war against this new yet ancient threat. But as his mentor Aaron warned him long ago, to wage this war he must bear an awesome responsibility, one that will exact a crushing toll on his body, his conscience, and his very soul. Dispatched by his new masters on a mission to the northernmost reaches of the world, Sherwood Brighton must come to grips with the consequences of his life-altering decision in Shamballa. To find what he''s searching for, he''ll have to look deep within himself and confront the harrowing terror shrouded in the recesses of his own mind. Opposing forces swirl towards their ultimate confrontation as Ira, Brighton, and those they hold most dear return to the place where it all began... Where the worth of humanity will be settled once and for all.