While on holiday in Scotland, visiting a macabre tourist attraction, a young Russian is murdered. As the police grapple with the fact that the cause of death was a massive blood loss, the Watchers are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose. Anton - the hero of The night watch quartet - is detailed to this seemingly mundane investigation, but on arriving in Scotland begins to realize that there is much more to the story than a wildcat vampire and a single murder.