Rhian, a girl from the Welsh valleys on the run from tragedy and herself,finds a new home in the modern East End of London, where the world’slargest financial center spins a web of money and power from glistening towersof chrome and glass. However, beneath the digital facade lurks the old East Endwhere the layers of two-thousand years of dramatic and violent history slideover one another like glaciers, spilling out in avalanches that warp the realworld. As bodies begin to litter the East End streets, The Commission dispatchesits best enforcers to deal with the situation: Karla is not human, and Jamesonleft his humanity behind in pieces in Northern Ireland and Afghanistan. Rhianmakes new friends — dangerous friends — and where Rhian goes,the wolf is always in her shadow, just a heartbeataway.
