"Believe it. Evil is out there. True tangible evil. Evil that scuttles and creeps; evil that shrinks from the light. Evil that consumes the souls of the living; evil that rends flesh from bone. Evil the steals courage from the brave; evil that gives terror to the innocent. No one stands between you and this evil except one woman. The magdalena. She has taken her sacred vows to be a guard against this evil. She has the talismans, the weapons and the knowledge of all her mothers before her. She carries at her side the spear of destiny, the very staff that pierced the side of Christ. She hunts the evils that plague us in the depths of their darkened world. She knows their habits, their haunts--she knows their names. She is their killer. This hunt is for the vampiri. The undead. Those who drink deep of blood still warm from beating hearts. But this time it is different. She will learn a new lesson this night. Evil comes in other forms."--P. [4] of cover.