Eleira is prophesied to become Queen. But Morgan will not so easily relinquish control...In The Crypts, the King has revealed his true purpose, and Dagan must reconcile his hatred for magic with his loyalty to the monarch.Meanwhile, an evil power is rising in the west, intricately linked to the Black Sorceress, that threatens the entire world...As always, Eleira is bound to the center of it, and the fate of the vampire world rests squarely on one girl's shoulders.