Pretty Maids All in a Row
It's 1940, and Europe is ravaged by World War II -- and ideal environment for two gleeful destructive monsters. Drusilla's birthday -- that is, the anniversary of her ressurection as a vampire -- impends and her devoted paramour Spike wants to celebrate in style. What more perfect a gift than the legendary necklace known as Freyja's Strand -- a chain of metal so potently magic that it instantly imbues it's wearer with the ability to shape-shift at will? The problem is, no one's sure that the bauble even exists.
Until Spike learns of a demon named Skrymir, who claims not only to possess the necklace, but is willing to trade.
Skrymir's true desire to be rid of the most persistant thorns in his side, the Watchers' Council and the Slayer, so that he can implement his vision of world domination. Spike's task is to infiltrate Council headquarters and get his hands on the list of all young women currentl training to take over as Slyaer should they be called. In excgange for the necklace, Spike must kill the current Slayer, a brazen young woman named Sophie, as well as all the Slayers - in - Waiting that exist "the pretty maids all in a row".
To Spike, this sounds like fun, and he sets off on a spree.
Sophie and her Watcher, Yanna, are determined to stop whoever has been slaughtering all of the potential Slayers. If Spike and Drusilla succeed with their plans of bloodlust and power, it could mean the end of the Chosen One -- all of the Cosen One's -- forever...
