Reviewer: Editor.

For hundreds of years
Camarilla vampires have preserved the Masquerade an intricate dance of deception, misdirection and manipulation that conceals their nocturnal predications from mortal eyes. Now the Sabbat are about to crash their party. The Clan Novel series takes a sinister turn as the dread Tzimisce emerge from their macabre dungeons and laboratories to take a decidedly unhealthy interest in events. Amid the rising nightmare, charismatic Sascha Vykos an Old World monster with a New World agenda -- brings both scourge and velvet glove to rally the fractious Sabbat forces. A great reckoning awaits the complacent Camarilla -- if only Vykos can preserve the volatile alliance and keep the Sabbat serpent from devouring its own tail. This series is a monumental, 13-novel exploration of the forbidden world of the Kindred. What began in Clan Novel: Toreador continues here, and its ending will determine the fate of every human -- and inhuman -- being in the world.