(Set in the Werewolves of Carthage universe.) The Old City, Russian Province. They are hated. Loathed. Feared. Desired. All with good reason. And now they are all going to die. The Caligulas run a deadly business, have many enemies and only one rule. The family always comes first. Now, the Mockingbird Street Runners are out for blood, set to persecute the Caligulas and punish them for all their sins. Especially the ones they have committed against each other. They want them beneath the axe or shackled in a filthy cell in the island prison of the race. But unfortunately for the everyone, evil has a will to live. And live it will.

Dark, desperate, and diseased, Valter rhy Chevalier has greater worries than hunting down and slaughtering the werewolves that stole from his boss. He is facing a musty grave in a strange tomb and desperate for something to save him. Something, someone... but it would seem he was destined to die as he was born: unwanted, unloved and forgotten in the fractured and timeless city of Carthage, CT. Worse still, as he spirals downward through the rest of his infected life, he realises he might not be the only one leaving it...he might just be taking someone with him.

*Undergoing Editing* A disturbed orphan boy devotes his future to keeping promises made to an equally troubled Seraphina.