The wolf will have the hare by the light of a blooded moon. When one of Lady Mildred Cecil's dearest friends is accused of witchcraft she risks everything to smuggle the young peasant to safety but before they can make their escape the two women are intercepted by spies sent from the empire of night, Terra Noxa. The vampires offer to take the accused girl to the continent where England's brutal witchcraft laws cannot reach the low born mage, but Mildred hesitates to trust the vampires offer. Terra Noxa has covered the continent in the rule of night as they march through Europe and she knows that they will soon reach England's shores. Mildred's treacherous noble husband forces her hand when he plots to cover up the association of witchcraft against his house. As her husband's suspicions deepen Mildred must place her trust in the vampire Symon de Vitre who runs through the night in the skin of a black wolf and desires her with an insatiable hunger. Can Mildred allow herself to revel in the delicious wickedness of the vampire's touch or will she deny the feral need beating within her own wild heart