A smash hit on the New York Times best-seller list, J.R. Ward's erotic urban fantasies "have earned [her] an Anne Rice-style following, deservedly so" (Publishers Weekly). In the fourth book of the series, human police officer Butch O'Neal is allowed into the Brotherhood's inner circle, where he comes under the spell of the beautiful and aristocratic vampire Marissa. But O'Neal is no ordinary human, and the real reason for his presence is soon revealed.