Anita leaves Phillip at the Freak Party to get some air. She runs across a group of vampires who are forcing Zachary to raise a dead woman, a task which he is failing at. Anita helps Zachary raise the corpse as a zombie. Nikolaos arrives and Anita has another encounter with the queen of the vampires.
Anita and Phillip escape from Nikolas and her pack of vampires. Anita investigates another vampire murder and discovers that Theresa has been decapitated. Anita and Veronica meet with the head of Humans Against Vampires to try and discover if they are the group responsible for the vampire slayings.
Anita meets with the head of the Church of Eternal Life, a congregation of vampires and their followers. Discovering that Nikolaos has captured Phillip, Anita confronts the head vampire once again. Nikolaos explains that Jean-Claude, whom she is punishing, has been drawing strength from Anita and she taskes the vampire hunter with undermining his authority through a little act of murder.
Nikolas orders Phillip's death and bites Anita to make her a willing servant. Anita meets up with the assassin Edward who helps cleanse the bite before the two head off to face the queen of the vampires. Stopping to perform a zombie ritual on the way, Anita and Nikolas are confronted by the vampire killer, Zachary, and his pack of powerful ghouls.