Exiled to Alaska for nine hundred years because of his bad attitude, Zarek the Dark-Hunter is given a second chance when the gods send Astrid, the sister to the Three Fates, to determine whether or not there is enough good in Zarek to make him worth saving.

"Nick Gautier's day just keeps getting better and better. Yeah, he survived the zombie attacks, only to wake up and find himself enslaved to a world of shapeshifters and demons out to claim his soul. His new principal thinks he's even more of a hoodlum than the last one, his coach is trying to recruit him to do things he can't even mention, and the girl he's not seeing, but is, has secrets that terrify him. But more than that, he's being groomed by...

Having finally accepted the demon inside of him, Nick decides to trust the one person he should not, just as the dark gods that created his race close in on him.

Just when Nick thinks he's finally gotten a handle on how not to take over the world and destroy it, Death returns with an all-star cast that is determined to end the Malachai reign and lineage forever. Worse? Death and War have found the one, true enemy Nick can't find, and even if he did, it's one he could never bring himself to banish or kill. Now framed for murders he hasn't committed, and surrounded by new friends who might be turncoats, Nick...