In seventeen year old Dakota Kekoa's line of work, a job can go bad in a split second. And when a job goes bad, people die.Suspended from working as a tax collector in her draconic family's protection racket, Dakota is assigned a secret mission from her grandfather. A foreign queen has offered a grave insult to Dakota's grandfather by running a vampire dinner cruise off the coast of the Mabiian Islands, and his retribution must be swift.Yet, when Dakota infiltrates the ship 'Crimson Sunset', nothing is at it seems. In a split second, not only is Dakota in deathly peril, all of New Anglo is on the road to war.