Résumé: The Children of the Kingdom, a vampiric cult sworn to wiping out wickedness, are preparing for the Night of Cleansing; a night in which the streets of New York will run red with the blood of the unclean. Meanwhile, Detective Twitch Williams' search for his missing son leads to an encounter with the bewitching Dawn, a street orphan who tells Twitch his son is "lost to the sunlit world" forever. And the Hellspawn squares off with the Kingdom's leader, the mysterious blind assassin called Simon.