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When a druid has lived for two thousand years like Atticus, he''s bound to run afoul of a few vampires. Make that legions of them. Even his former friend and legal counsel turned out to be a bloodsucking backstabber. Now the toothy troublemakers - led by power-mad Theophilus - have become a huge problem requiring a solution. It''s time to make a stand.

As always, Atticus wouldn''t mind a little backup. But his allies have problems of their own. Ill-tempered archdruid Owen Kennedy is having a wee bit of troll trouble: turns out when you stiff a troll, it''s not water under the bridge. Meanwhile, Granuaile is desperate to free herself of the Norse god Loki''s mark and elude his powers of divination - a quest that will bring her face to face with several Slavic nightmares.

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