The New York Times bestselling fantasy set in Jazz Age Harlem,where at night the dance halls come to life–and death waits in the dark. It’s 1926 and reapersthe once-human vampires with a terrifying afflictionare on the rise in New York. But the Saint family’s thriving reaper-hunting enterprise holds reign over the citygiving them more power than even the organized criminals who run the nightclubs. Eighteen year-old Elise Sainthome after five years in Parisis the reluctant heir to the empire. Only one thing weighs heavier on Elise’s mind than her family obligations: the knowledge that the Harlem reapers want her dead. Layla Quinn is a young reaper haunted by her past. Though reapers have existed in America for three centuriescreated by New World atrocities and cruel experimentsLayla became one just five years ago. The night she was turnedshe lost her parentsthe protection of the Saintsand her humanityand she’ll never forget how Elise Saint betrayed her. But some reapers are inexplicably turning part human againleaving a wake of mysterious and brutal killings. When Layla is framed for one of these attacksthe Saint patriarch offers her a deal she can’t refuse: to work with Elise to investigate how these murders might be linked to shocking rumors of a reaper cure. Once close friendsnow bitter enemiesElise and Layla explore the city’s underworldconfronting their intense feelings for one another and uncovering the sinister truths about a growing threat to reapers and humans alike.