Dr Flora Snow is a brilliant young Egyptologist, who's just finished her PhD when she's offered a fellowship at the prestigious and secretive postgraduate Cawdor College right in the heart of Edinburgh's old town. However, the strange thing is that Flora never actually applied.
And, when Flora arrives to take up the new post, she soon discovers that she is the only human in a college of vampires: the sole human ever admitted in its thousand-year history. Is it her insights into the college's legendary collection of Egyptian artifacts that the faculty are after, or is it something else? Something darker that will make Flora question everything about herself and her own past.
One way or another, Flora is determined to find out. And Flora isn't alone in her quest. Equally resolved to discover why this young human woman has been admitted into the college and its secret world are two vampires, also fellows at Cawdor College; the haughty, cool and irritatingly handsome, Alex Dowling and his nemesis, Rafael Carax, wicked, irascible and charming. Both vampires are focused on Flora, and to her dismay she finds herself attracted to them both and experiences the tug of new dark desires. It's just a pity that she doesn't trust either of them.