When authorities breached the family compound, Matra saw the outside world for the first time and finally saw her family for what it truly was-a cult. With the "parents" gone, and with the government rounding up shifters, vampires, and sympathizers, Matra becomes the de facto leader of the young adults she grew up with. But as days bleed into weeks in hiding, Matra struggles to balance her responsibility to the group with her own priorities. Because Matra is pregnant, and the last man she so much as kissed? She hasn't seen him in five years. Christopher hasn't been the same since he was forced to leave the woman he loved to the mercy of her deranged family five years ago-the woman he illegally shared his blood with, the woman he can't stop thinking about. Their worlds diverged into Us and Them, and now he's controlled by the new vampire law, but when he finds Matra again, he won't let anything stop him from keeping her by his side. Desperate for answers, Matra searches for the vampire she was forbidden to love, who she's dreamed of every night for half a decade-and who she's convinced against all logic is her child's father. She needs help. She needs Christopher, and if they're to survive and keep their unexplainable child safe, they must sacrifice their bond, embracing forbidden sides of themselves that will get them captured-if not killed. Because if anyone finds out the girl is impossibly Christopher's daughter, it could spell disaster for humans and vampires alike.