Huff, Tanya

Henry Fitzroy, a 450-year-old vampire, calls upon his sometime-lover and comrade in supernatural investigations Vicki Nelson for help when he begins having terrifying visions of the sun, which they discover are linked to the arrival of a new sarcophagus at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum.

The Empire has declared war on the small, were-ruled kingdom of Aydori, capturing five women of the Mage-pack, including the wife of the were pack-leader. With the pack off defending the border, it falls to Mirian Maylin and Tomas Hagen--she a low-level mage, he the younger brother to the pack-leader--to save them.