When a druid has lived for two thousand years like Atticus, he's bound to run foul of a few vampires. Make that legions of them. Now it's time to take a stand against the toothy troublemakers and their power-mad leader Theophilus. Atticus wouldn't mind some back-up, but his allies have their own problems. Ill-tempered archdruid Owen Kennedy is having troll trouble: turns out when you stiff a troll, it's not water under the bridge. Meanwhile, Granuaile is desperate to elude the Norse god Loki's powers of divination. As Atticus globetrots to stop his nemesis Theophilus, the journey leads to Rome. What better place to end an immortal than the Eternal City? But poetic justice comes at a price: In order to defeat Theophilus, Atticus may have to lose an old friend...