Robert agrees to help the secretive MIO agency investigate a series of monster-related murders in return for Ravi's freedom. However, Robert soon learns that the MIO are not to be trusted.

Robert has no wish to find the monster that is killing wealthy young men, but the trail is too compelling to resist. It leads him to a fight with a beautiful vampire who shocks him with the news that she is his sister, Olalla. She also tells him Dance is alive and being rebuilt by eel-creatures.