SHE SWIMS THROUGH A SEA OF FIRE AND RAGE AND BLOOD! There is something ancient and terrible loose in the world of men. Something that hates them with burning passion, that bears a grudge born of ten thousand years. Something that wants its revenge. Detective Amy Sun has a problem - a problem called the NYPD. Three years ago, a young woman was rescued from a serial killer by a police tactical unit. Now she's dead - and Amy has a bad feeling one of her fellow officers is responsible. Is there a conspiracy deep inside the department, intent on covering up the foulest of crimes? And if there is, what does one officer do about it? But Amy is looking in the wrong direction. A far more dangerous, far more terrible threat than anything in the affairs of mortal men is suddenly at hand. A force of vengeance older than the human race itself has awoken, invoked by the tormented murder victim in the weeks before she died, and out for the blood of the guilty - who soon find themselves suffering a fate more gruesome than anything they could have dreamed of. The Ribbon Queen has come to New York City... and when she learns the truth, Amy is not at all certain that it should be stopped.