Gellert Osgodby has worked as a business manager for the King family, one of Lashton's prominent magical crime organisations, for nearly a decade when an error in judgement brings his employment to an abrupt end. Lucien Pike, a rival kingpin, plucks him from the street as he flees the consequences, and pressures him into becoming his new secretary.
Pike, an unstable and centuries-old vampire, is chaotic, disorganised, and stuck in his ways, and with Gellert at the helm of his business ventures, things within the Pike family - and in Lashton as a whole - are forced to change.