- "On the fields of Revolution
Where England's traitor King runneth
Passion's dew is stolen
The undercroft keeps the salve of enemy wounds."
When three young women disappear in Boston, Foster follows a quatrain that seems to point to this being of interest. He teams up with the sister of one of the missing women to find out what has happened and why.
Tropes:
- Big Sister Instinct: Romance novelist Renee Ashford, sister to the latest missing woman, publically offers a reward of $100,000 for her safe return and works with Cade to find her.
- Genre Shift: Invoked by Cade and ultimately averted. Renee Ashford offers to use her influence and resources as a best selling author to warn people of the Gua invasion, but Cade states that if she did so, she’d be dismissed as a crank who started complaining of “aliens” after being unable to write any more romance novels.
- Healing Factor: The Gua are harvesting oxytocin from the kidnapped women to improve their healing abilities and become near invincible.
- Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Renee Ashford is too jaded to rely on anyone else's help, and Cade is determined to prove her wrong.
