After several years spent on the run from the government and fi ghting to survive, Lily Turner has become a woman almost like any other. A tattoo artist, she shares her life with her boyfriend and her dog, and no one knows that she was once nicknamed ‘Saint Mary of the Shadows’, the healer. But a series of murders risks changing everything she built, and forces Lily to make diffi cult choices, both to protect herself and to save those she loves… And meanwhile she must face up to a painful truth: her immunity to the vile creatures could be humanity’s only hope.