Dr. Elisabeth Frost, conventional psychologist, part-time author, finds herself drawn into an investigation with no apparent motive, save to pull her into it.To solve this brutal murder, she's going to have to look past her preconceptions and into the world of the shadows, where a select few wield powers that stretch the imagination.There is a war going on out there, a war in the darkness. Dr. Frost has just been sent an invitation to it, engraved in pain and flesh and horror.Because someone out there wants to break the world.And it looks like they just might have the power to do it.