Los Angeles -- City of Angels, city of dreams. But sometimes the dreams become nightmares.Victor Renquist, centuries-old Master of a small group of Nosferatu, is working to establish the Colony in their new home Los Angeles, after leaving New York just one step ahead of exposure.Renquist is uneasy. Ancient instincts warn him that someone is meddling with dark powers. The Council of Nine, the governing board of Apogee, a highly successful quasi-religious cult, is attempting to summon Cthulhu. Renquist must find a way to stop them -- and also to solve the problem of the Darklost, a human brought part-way along the road to becoming Nosferatu and then cruelly abandoned.