"They called it the Blight--Mother Nature's revenge against humanity for millennia of abuse. In less than a year civilization collapsed, mankind dwindled, and wilderness reclaimed the land--and then something even stranger happened. The creatures of myth and legend emerged from the shadows. They were real. And now they rule the world. But they are not a united empire. An even greater menace, however, has arrived on the wind. To the always-hungry Vampire Nation, Sidhe, centaurs, orgres, gairies, and humans alike are all livestock ready to be harvested--and the time is ripe for the slaughter. None of this matters to the bold young human Prosper Monday. She only wants to reunite with her missing grandfather and her best friend Angus--and to figure out the motives of her captor, the outcast Sidhe known as John Hobb. But there's no hiding from the great war that's coming--or from its deadly crossfire"--Page 4 of cover.