U Kordelii Karsters, kazhetsya, est vse, o chem tolko mozhno mechtat. Ona pomolvlena s Dzheymsom Erondeylom, kotorogo lyubit s detstva. Ee luchshaya podruga, Lyusi Erondeyl, ryadom, kak i vernyy mech - Kortana. I otets, kotorogo Kordeliya tak lyubit, nakonets vernulsya domoy. No eto lish prazdnichnyy fasad. Na samom dele vse gorazdo mrachnee. Brak s Dzheymsom - lozh, neobhodimaya, chtoby spasti reputatsiyu Kordelii. Kortana obzhigaet ruku hozyayki, stoit toy prikosnutsya k ney. Da i vozvraschenie ottsa proshlo sovsem ne tak, kak hotelos. V Londone tozhe nespokoyno. Seriynyy ubiytsa presleduet Sumerechnyh ohotnikov na temnyh londonskih ulitsah... Mnogie uzhe pogibli ot ego ruki. Kordeliya, Dzheyms i Lyusi pytayutsya vysledit ubiytsu i sohranit taynu - kazhdyy svoyu, strashnuyu, sposobnuyu bezvozvratno izmenit mnogoe.
