In Guatemala, women and children are being enslaved to work in sweatshops, assembling designer clothing for high-end consumers. In Los Angeles, men are going missing but no bodies are found. In New York City, two towers are about to fall.When an Anglican clergyman and his friends investigate a link between a Guatemalan sweatshop and a major US corporation, a new evil emerges, its reach expanding across the globe. It is an evil that is familiar to the friends, one that drains the life from human beings and was thought to have been defeated long ago in a small seaside town in southern California.Familiar characters from the novel This Side of Death return twelve years later to find that the horror of the vampire they thought had been destroyed is now about to revisit them in ways they couldn't have imagined. And the price the friends will pay for their confrontation with this new enemy will be devastating.