She is known as the avenger of the night, a heroine not afraid to dish out her own brand of tough justice to criminals. She won't kill them but she will hurt them a lot of the time. In her eyes, death is too good for them. Slow, painful revenge is so much better. It evil is in hiding she will find it.

She is a master detective with a network of operatives and an arsenal of weapons at her disposal. Dressed in black and blue, she strikes fear into all who cross her angry path. Traveling the streets at night in her sinister black car, she hunts for her next victim.

But there is someone who gives the Nightbird more help than anyone else, someone who provides her with the technology and hardware to fight her nightly battle with evil. His name is Anton Hallard, a millionaire playboy and longtime acquaintance of Emma's. Whatever she needs he gives it to her. They share an unspoken love and respect for each other and yet shall never bond and become partners. They live separate lives only ever coming together for their own mutual needs and agendas. It is a perfect relationship which both of them have no wish to change.

Out of costume and in the light of day, the Nightbird becomes Emma Hudson, a woman seen as an outcast from society. She is perceived as a loner, someone on the edge of darkness. She never seems to smile, always dresses in dark clothes and is very quiet and unsociable. She's not married and doesn't have a boyfriend, her family are long since gone from her life. To everyone around her she is someone to be avoided and talked about behind her back. No one would ever suspect her dark alter-ego.

Beware the Nightbird, for she is out there...