What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas. Yeah, right. Until bestselling fantasy writer, and warrior of the Celestial Blade Tess Noncoiré discovers a band of enslaved Faeries forced to perform unreal special effects in the hottest show in town. Their entrapment creates a dangerous leak of life energy from their home world. The unbalance is causing Faery to collapse and the seals keeping dangerous demons in place have weakened. Earth could implode with the influx of outworlders and Las Vegas houses the central portal. The Faeries have weakened, their bright clothing fades and becomes tattered. They falter in their forced performances. The producer threatens murder. Tess needs to save the Faeries, but how can she get away from teaching at a writers conference, providing her imp companion his special diet, and snapping her mom, Genevieve, out of a deep depression after the murder of her half-demon husband of three days. Genevieve falls in love with a karaoke machine, bright lights, and glittery gowns. Who and what can Tess trust with the care of her fragile mother? Tess needs help. Donovan, the sexiest man alive, and her sort of step-brother, is busy with secret business deals. Her research assistant Guilford van der Hoyden Smythe, Ph.D. will come at the snap of her fingers but teaches full time at a community college in New England. And then there's Mikey, a maybe too helpful cab driver. If she can't rely on the men in her life, dare she enlist the aid of the vampire crime boss, Lady Lucia, who seems far too interested in Tess and her imp? Who will save the Faeries?