She swore to do no harm, but can she protect a vampire without killing a revenant? Picking up from The Last Inheritance, American pathologist Abby Whiting finally accepts she can't run from the dead. The ghosts haunting Cambridge continue to ask her for justice, and, at last, she has the courage to help. But can she save the living? George Cooper is alive, but too afraid to live. If he so much as hints at the human heart...