Publisher's Synopsis
When the Council sent Romana Escalara out on her first job she was ecstatic.Finally, she would get to do what she'd spent the last 10years training for. Yet, when she came up against three dark witches, she realized the true extent of her magick. But when the Master Vampire showed up out of nowhere; then not only set his sights on her... but he killed Xander as well...she realized she wasn't as awesome as she thought. For six years after Romie swore she'd kill any dark Council member she encountered on sight...whether good or bad. She figured at some point... she would find that vamp and put him down! Romana knew that if it was with her last breath...she would kill him for what he'd done to Xander...For 1,500 years, Maphis simply lived, with no thought of love, or entanglements of it.That is until he saw her.Maphis knew his one and only job after that night was to make sure she lived, if for no other reason, then to prove to her who her Necromancing boyfriend truly was....
