An Immortal Vlad "Keradoc" Dracula targets a Brazilian Highlander, Malej, who nears the grip of a Dark Quickening. Things do not go according to plan and others in the Game become embroiled in Dracula's ensuing curse.
Crooked police investigate a murder mystery in Granite Falls involving three lifelong friends who reunited at a cabin as a very dark, very ancient evil manipulates events at the center of it all.
Hans Kirschner is weary at the end of the 18th century. His failures have broken him. His town of Bukovina suffers under the rule of an Immortal who has taken over entirely while he has to find the strength to become the hero he once was.
