The sequel to "Dark Dance". The House is destroyed, the Scarabae dead or scattered, and the youngest and most dangerous of them, voracious for destruction, is free. Ruth, a mind as old as evil in the body of a teenage girl, unleashes blood and fire across southern England.
Rachaela's daughter is named Anna, to honour the dead. On her breast is a small blue mark. In two years, she grows to the maturity of a 16-year-old woman and is abducted by Cain, the outcaste of Scarabe. Meanwhile, he is stealing other children and taking them to a place at the end of the world.