Butch O'Neal has been living with the Black Dagger of the Brotherhood for six months and is feeling like he's their pet. They cloth him in expensive clothes and they feed him. But he's not one of them. His love for the vampire female Marissa is coming to a head. She refuses to see him and he's coming close to stalking her. Butch is captured one night by the Lessers and is tortured by them.
It seems that J. R Ward keeps getting better as the series goes along. Although, to me, it wasn't as emotional as Zadist's book there were times it made me cry. I love the relationship that Butch and Vishous have.
