When Lily sees a ghost at a shooting range, she has no idea who the spectre is or was or what it wants-but she feels it is a premonition of things to come . . .
Lily's boss, Ruben, is recovering from an attempt on his life that nearly succeeded--and they don't know which traitor in the Bureau tried to kill him. But he reveals to Lily and her fiance, lupi Rule Turner, that he's used his recovery period to form a ghost unit that will operate in secret.and outside the law. Lily's conscience won't let her join. Rule has no such reservations, though. His people's most ancient enemy is active once more. The lupi are at war.
But when a senator is killed by a dagger imbued with death magic and Lily is assigned to the investigation, so much more hangs in the balance than Lily can guess. Her decision becomes a matter of life and death and all the magic in between...