●Former-bounty-hunter Rachel Morgan has it pretty good. She s left the corrupt Inderland Runner Service and started her own independent service. She s survived werewolves, shape-changing demons, bad-hair days, and sharing a church with her vampire roommate Ivy. She even has a cute (if human) boyfriend-what more could a witch want?
曾經是賞金獵人的瑞秋‧摩根現在過得不錯。她辭掉了風氣腐敗的Iderland Runner公司，並自己當起老闆開了另一家。她在險惡的環境下生存了下來，險些被狼人、變形惡魔奪走小命，還忍受了一段髮型難看的日子；她還和一個吸血鬼室友艾薇共處一座教堂，甚至還有一個可愛的男朋友〈雖然他是人類〉，還有什麼好要求的呢？

●Seven years later,Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk investigates an abandoned shipwrecked fishing trawler carrying exotic caged animals,part of a black market smuggling ring.But there is something disturbingly wrong with these beasts—each an unsettling mutation of the natural order,all sharing one uncanny trait:incredibly heightened intelligence.

Joining forces with U.S.Border patrol agent Jack Menard—a man who shares with her a dark and bloody past—Lorna sets out to uncover the truth about this strange cargo and the terrorist threat it poses.Because a beast escaped the shipwreck and is running amok—and what is about to be born upon the altar of Eden could threaten not only the future of the world but the very foundation of what it means to be human.