After Wynn escaped the castle of ancient vampires with Magiere and Leesil, she returns to her hometown, Calm Seatt. The Guild of Sagecraft has texts penned by vampires. Wynn also has journals with her tales of the undead. Butthe Guild's Scholars have not dismissed the texts. But, without Wynn's permission they start sending out her texts so they can be copyied. Th next day several of Wynn's papers had disapeared. The two people that sent out the texts were murdered....Wynn thinks the Noble Dead are responsible for the killings of the two men. Wynn next goes on a mission to uncover the secrets of the texts. But, she has enemies from unexpected quarters...