Cheat the Grave — Vicki Pettersson

"I am not Shadow, Light, rogue agent, or leader."

Las Vegas socialite and otherwordly avenger Joanna Archer gave up everything when she embraced mortality -- abandoning her powers and altering her destiny to save a child . . . and a city. Now her former allies are her enemies -- and her enemies have nothing to fear.

Yet still she is bound to a prophecy that condemns her to roam a nightmare landscape that ordinary humans cannot see and dare not enter. And a beast is on her trail -- an insane killer blinded by bloodlust, who's determined to rip much more from Joanna than merely her now-fragile life. Survival is no longer an option in this dark realm where good and evil have blurred into confusing shades of gray -- unless she can gather together an army of onetime foes and destroy everything she once believed in.