Tess Noncoire, successful fantasy writer and Celestial Blade Warrior, has made a deal with the Powers That Be, forfeiting her own dreams in order to save those nearest and dearest to her. Having survived this unprecedented experience, Tess, along with her imp Scrap, is determined to hunt down a demonic intruder from another dimension - the Norglein, who seems bent on ravishing young women, leaving them pregnant and waiting for the proper time to steal their babies away for his own purposes.