Payne is trying to figure out his future.He still doesn’t understand his past.He’s a newly promoted Centurion 2, finally trusted with real cases. His first big assignment is a puzzling hover car crash-exactly the kind of investigation he’s been waiting for.At the same time, Payne is chasing a far more personal mystery: the truth about his vampire parents who disappeared from his life, leaving him to be raised by a sorceress for reasons unknown.Two mysteries. One journey.And far more trouble than Payne expected.