After a tumultuous recovery from Biter's Addiction, Eleni Audridov knows one misstep may lead the vampire council to blot her disgraced bloodline from the Book of Acolytes. Sent to live in southern France with a mal vampire she has never met, Eleni hopes to start her life over. Scarred, both physically and emotionally, Julian Sevigne reluctantly accepts Eleni into his household as his duty-bound lover. Despite his resistance to her charms, passion soon flares between them-but that passion comes with a price. His attraction to her has awakened the sleeping demons of his past. Now history is threatening to repeat itself, a history filled with jealousy, tragedy, and death. Julian must face the dark secrets he thought long buried...or risk losing Eleni forever."