DEATH IS ONLY THE BEGINNING Beneath Windsor Castle, a shadow network of immortals keeps the British Empire safe. British army captain Lucas Fitzrobbins becomes one of them when the only cure for his mortal wound turns out to be a vampirism, abruptly inducting him into the secret St. George Protector Society. It's not long before the St. George Society's newest recruit discovers its dark secrets as well... MARKED AS A TARGET Hampering Lucas's efforts to adjust to his after-life is An Tighearn operative Nellie Clifton, a beautiful and enigmatic assassin with secrets of her own, who has marked Lucas as her latest quarry. The unstable vampirism potion he was given could kill him before Nellie can. But then... SECRETS ARE THREATENED TO BE REVEALED But now a brutal killer is stalking the streets of the seamy underside of London. Protectors and assassins alike must leave the shadows to find the fiend before their very existence is revealed to the world. Tasked with the job of tracking down the murderer, Lucas discovers that the crazed butcher may have connections that go to the heart of the British Empire. THE QUEEN MUST NEVER KNOW