A party to die for... When Elizabeth Rainsen runs into a potential new friend and a definite old enemy on the same day, her life is thrown into chaos. She agrees to attend Richard Henry's party in the hopes that she can finally get him off her back, only to be attacked and left for dead. It's only with the help of new-to-town Charles Storm that she's saved, but the consequences have her plunged into a world of blood, gods, magic, and a destiny that isn't her own. A centuries-old conflict is reborn with Elizabeth as she learns how to balance her new life as a vampire with the already rocky relationship she has with her sister, Kyra. Only time is not on her side as she finds out that she is the key to stopping a suffocating darkness from destroying everything... or letting it loose entirely.