Oceana is a regular girl, working as an indexer for the police, when Tristan, the vampire executioner, walks into her life. He needs her help to figure out why he's being sent to kill certain people and he's not shy about manipulating her into giving it to him. As Oceana is sucked against her will into a world of vampires, witches and politics, she has to learn fast that nothing is at all what it seems on the surface and, if she can't find the answers fast enough, people are going to die.

Hurt and betrayed by the man she loved, Oceana has left the vampires behind and returned to her old life. A year on, and still unable to forgive Tristan for his misdeeds, she is in no mood to help out when his family arrive on her doorstep begging for her help. But when the price for making a stand is the death of a man she holds dear, she is once again sucked unwillingly into the politics of vampire kind. With the French threatening to annexe Britain and her powers spiralling wildly out of control, Oceana knows she has to risk it all. There is no room for error in the sprawling political...

In 2014 a shipping magnate calls in an investigation team to find out why containers are going missing from his ships. In 1900 a young mother flees to the colonies with little in her possession except two young children. In 1745 Charles Stuart lands at Glenfinnan in Scotland to embark on the doomed Jacobite rebellion that would cost him his last shot at the British throne. The thread that links these events is a twisted one of betrayal, broken hearts and politics. With a civil war that could tear a country, already in turmoil over the Scottish Independence Referendum, in two, there's...