Ailith is a trained hunter who rids the world of otherworldly creatures.

When The Black Sanctum dispatched her to Rome, she expects werewolves, banshees, maybe a rogue ghost.

She doesn’t expect the gargoyle perched on the cathedral rooftop.

Malach isn’t a mortal.
He isn’t tame.
And he definitely isn’t on her side.

He hates everything The Black Sanctum stands for... everything Ailith represents.

But something far worse is taking over the city.

A parasite wearing human skin, multiplying in the dark, feeding on the city one body at a time. Malach has been killing them the only way he can, ripping out their corrupted hearts and taking the rot into himself to keep the curse at bay.

A reluctant alliance forms as hunter and monster search for a way to stop the infection before it consumes the world.

Then Ailith discovers the truth.

Her bloodline is the same one that cursed Malach into stone.

And she may be the only one who can save him.