As an NYPD patrol officer, Teigen Fray was expected to be prepared for anything. However, her world was rocked when her younger sister and mother both went missing on Clarissa's eighteenth birthday, the loft that Teigen had grown up in had been completely torched with no evidence that Clary nor Teigen had ever lived there. Then when a body showed up outside an abandoned cathedral, something began roiling under her skin, darkness clinging to her skin at every opportunity and the thick shadows that blanketed the city at night lashing out at unsuspecting victims much to Teigen'sTeigen's confusion and horror. With the pressure of finding her missing sister and mother, while doing her job correctly and trying to hide the unnatural darkness that accompanied her figure, she failed to see the figures watching in silence, waiting to make their move.