The remorseful Soulblight vampire known as the Hollow King is back in action, as old debts bond him in service to Neferata, Mortarch of Blood. Cado is plunged into a conflict with Mannfred von Carstein in The Dead Kingdom by John French, where he’ll have to make a painful choice between leaving a city to drown in the tides of war or defying the will of the Queen of Blood.