Death in London
Following the events of the first book, The Dragon of Arnhem, Mary, a seemingly ordinary 21 year old girl living in Berlin with her German mother and Chinese American boyfriend, meets Iulia, a Frost vampire in her workplace. When a museum heist involving undead warriors threatens the safety of Berlin, the two heroines journey to London to seek guidance from a mutual friend named Clara. She and Iulia reveal themselves to be around 100 years old, having lived through the Second World War. Mary refuses to believe their age until Clara reveals Mary's actual age "102" and that they have met before during WW2. Mary does not remember her past life, and Clara offers to guide her, but she runs away in an existential crisis. After Clara was tragically killed, the public and parliament debated her legacy as Hitler's biological daughter. Iulia, joined by Alex, Clara's husband, goes on a quest to bring Clara back from the underworld. Mary, meanwhile, goes on a quest to retrieve Excalibur in order to control the undead warriors. Mary experiences visions of her past in dreams where she is Anna, the daughter of Stalin. She was born from a dead woman's body, and in a twist, it was revealed that her true mother is Death. Stalin had an affair with Death and sacrificed millions to his true lover. He used his human wife to give birth to Anna so that Anna could serve as the living vessel for Death to walk the earth. Anna escaped the USSR and changed her name. Mary sacrificed herself, becoming Death's vessel and terrorized London. Clara, after being brought back to life, sacrificed her head to save London and died a second time as the city remembers her vast and diverse relationships. Clara transcends her mortal form and confronts Mary, who relives the moment she loses all her memory. She killed Hitler in the fuhrerbunker and out of guilt for taking a life, freezes herself in ice for decades to preserve her youth and innocence. Mary finally controls Death and becomes the goddess of death.