When you hunt monsters for a living, eventually they hunt back.

Tess Cooper has made a name for herself solving the unsolvable—the supernatural cases that leave normal fixers baffled and cops helpless. Curses, brujos, Voodoo priests? All in a day's work. If dark magic has you in its crosshairs, Tess is your last line of defense.

But when Luis—who always watches her back—leaves the country, Tess is left defenseless as her world implodes. A family member goes missing, a bullet finds its mark, and the police are asking questions about a cold case that was supposed to stay buried.

Something lethal is working its way through everyone Tess cares about, and the clock is ticking. As bodies drop and evidence mounts against her, Tess is forced to consider the unthinkable: either she's the target of this deadly magic, or it's aimed at the family of brujos who saved her life—a family that might not be around to save her for much longer.

The second pulse-pounding installment in the series that began with Black Magic's Prey.