When the men went to war, an old enemy found its opening.

After more than sixty years as a vampire, Alice Bladewell has proven that grace, not nature, decides who she is.

She has built a life, a Rule, and a family of Sisters around that one conviction, and she has never once had to test it against her own history.

Pearl Harbor changes that.

Conscripted into the night shift at a Charleston shipyard, Alice finds herself working alongside women who trust her with everything but the truth ? and a man from her own past who wants something from her she swore, decades ago, she would never give again.

Something is moving through the Yard in the shadows.

It wears a familiar face.

Alice has one chance to stop it without becoming, once more, the very thing she has spent her whole existence trying not to be.

Some wars are fought with armies.

Hers is fought one soul at a time. And this time, the enemy already knows her name.