For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there's something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film's producer believes he's the target of a sinister entropy curse - but it's the woman around him who are dying, in increasingly spectacular ways. Harry's doubly frustrated because he got involved with this bizarre mystery only as a favour to Thomas, his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can't quite figure out, until his investigation leads him straight to Thomas's oversexed vampire family. Harry's about to discover that Thomas's family tree has been hiding a shocking secret: a revelation that will change Harry's life forever.
Harry is convinced by Thomas that he owes him a favour (and he probably does) so he hires him to protect a friend of his as people around him are getting hurt. It turns out that his friend is a director in the adult film industry and does indeed have some kind of entropy curse around him. Harry gets drawn into a web of intrigue and deceit, gets attacked by black court vampires set on revenge and makes a startling discovery about his family history.
Another excellent helping of Dresden slowly evolving his story and building on his previous tales.
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