Sam Hain is a wanted man. His supernatural investigations have caught the attention of the clandestine group known only as the Regents, and Sam soon finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy far beyond his reckoning. When the occult detective goes missing one night, it is up to Alice Carroll and one of Sam's oldest friends to get to the bottom of his disappearance. In the fourth instalment of the Sam Hain series, the usually unflappable detective is wrought with fear and paranoia, and not without good reason...