There is the blood and can only ever be the blood. So, how will love survive in a world of pain? Vampire Charles Tower never knew anything sweeter than the taste of Stacy Morgan's lips. He never imagined anything crueler than her being marked for death by the only father he's ever known. Mikhail reared him. Taught him how to survive. Now he's gone rogue and it's up to Charles to put the man down. But can he convince himself, and Stacy, that love between them is impossible? That's hard to do with a woman like her, especially when she offers herself up as bait. Now they must fight against the centuries-old customs that bar them from being together and the rogue vampire who wants every last drop of Stacy's blood.