Juva hates blood readers. Praised for their Sight, they are nothing but swindlers, preying on people's fears, for power and profit. Born by blood readers herself, she knows only too well, and she has vowed never to become one of them. But when her family is threatened by vardari, the eerie lasting ones, who never age, Juva is entangled in a desperate hunt for the blood readers' legacy: a dark secret that once changed the world, and may do so again. In order to survive, she has to confront ...

Imagine having stolen the devil from the world's most powerful people. Deprived them of their source of eternal life. And started a war so fueled by fear and contempt that you are forced to become what you hunt. Juva is marked forever by the man she set free. The devil himself, whose blood gives the vardari eternal life. Now she is drowning in unanticipated consequences: a flood of wolf-sickness, a faltering city council, and the vardari's desperate flight over the last drops. Consumed by ...