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Way back when, homo nocturnus ruled the Earth, able to change the forces of nature at their most elementary level. Before the dawn of saved history they were overthrown, abandoning them only legends-our legends of shapeshifters and blood-drinkers, of cruel gods and evil magicians, of ogres and goblins, succubi and incubi. But a strain of their blood lives on in mankind, the genes themselves bending the forces of possibility to reunite. Magic formula clans used their half-understood talents to cover from the witch-finders and the standard humans; occasionally one would be recognized, a Giles de Rais or an Elizabeth Bathory. Then, in the nineteenth century, the discoveries of Mendel and Darwin empowered them to comprehend what they were and to breed back the full range of their dark capabilities. Now, in the twenty-first century, they rule the planet again in key; only the Brotherhood fights them, in a clandestine conflict of terror and assassination, of Wreaking and silver-inlaid knives. Adrian Breze was created into that conflict, but he defected to the side of mankind, and for many years he was the Brotherhood's most reliable fighter, in the same way his twin sister Adrienne is the Council of Shadow's strongest. Now he has retired, weary of the unlimited have difficulty, but Adrienne has her own purposes, and they don't include allowing her brother live silently in his mountaintop retreat near Santa Fe. To power him out, she kidnaps his individual fan, Ellen Tarnowski, and the conflict is on again-with the future of humanity on the line. For the Council of Shadows is preparing to emerge into the light, with an idea that will certainly reduce humans once more to the harried victim of the creatures of darkness.
