This chance encounter leads to a reunion of sorts at the Arkeley's memorial service with his estranged family: his wife: Astarte, his daughter: Raleigh, his son: Simon, and his brother: Angus.

Caxton takes Carboy out of custody and tortures him- leaving him outside in a winter road with bare feet so that he will be forced to walk home and suffer from frostbite-, until he reveals enough of his hidden relationship with Arkeley for her to learn the location of his lair.

Caxton is able to recapture her gun from Raleigh, shoot and kill the vampire, and escape into the depths of the burning coal mine.

Using her own blood as bait, Caxton lures the now blood-maddened Arkeley into a side-shaft of the mine and tricks him into falling down into the burning depths.

When Caxton finds her way back to the surface, carrying Simon, the only surviving member of the Arkeley family, she is immediately arrested by Fetlock for violating Carboy's constitutional rights.