Harry Dresden is the only consulting wizard in the Chicago phone book, and you know the case is bad if the cops have to call on him. Harry has thumped the heart of darkness so often that it's left a mark: a fallen angel has moved into his head, forcing him to fight temptation ... as if fighting vampires and other supernatural baddies weren't enough. If the White Council of wizards finds out he's hosting a demon, heaven only knows what they'll do. But when the Council is left shorthanded, Harry is asked to join. Now, as a Warden - a kind of cross between avenging angel and bogeyman - he has to make sure wizards don't use their power in violation of the Laws of magic. Which, as you'd expect, makes him even less popular with the supernatural community that he was before.