Not all monsters lurk in the dark. Some walk among us, wearing the faces of men, their hunger hidden behind charm, their cruelty mistaken for love. And some, some were never given the choice to be anything else. This is a story of love and ruin, of vengeance and fate. Of three souls forever bound by the past, and the blood that refuses to wash away. Lucian was once a master, a ruler of men, until he became the very thing he feared mosta creature with no chains but his own guilt. He was made into a predator, but no one warned him that immortality does not free you from the past. It only ensures you can never outrun it. Gerhard spent his mortal life in chains, a man stripped of choice, reduced to nothing more than another's property. Until the night he was remadestronger, faster, untouchable. But power does not erase pain, and love does not erase hatred. Not when the man who enslaved him is the same one who now calls himself his brother. Sophia was caught between them both. Loved by one, protected by the other, she has been both shield and weapon, both salvation and destruction. She once believed she could choose between them. She now wonders if she was ever meant to choose at all.
