Posing as husband and wife, Cat takes desperate steps to keep Simon safe, but when he is recruited to profile a killer, she finds herself pulled back into a world of murder, mayhem, and magic. Cat and Simon arrive in the sprawling city of Londunium pretending to be a newly married couple, but don’t expect to keep up the ruse for long. Cat looks forward to honing her healing magick at the local Selanae university, but instead finds a council of ruthless leaders threatening to erase her non-Selanae "husband’s" memories to protect their secrets. Cat takes desperate measures to keep him safe. When a string of mutilated bodies turns up in the woods outside the city, Simon is recruited to profile the killer. Cat is pulled back into a world of mayhem that threatens to swallow her, and everything she loves, whole. -- adapted from jacket

Sequel to: Blood and moonlight.