Alexis thought the Middle East would be far enough to escape her troubles back home. Since childhood, she's been taking pills to silence a darkness inside her. Now she's been murdered, reborn and the pills don't work anymore. Starved for blood and caught up in an ancient rivalry between the Levantine vampire clans, Alexis is of great interest to those who want to harness her secret. The one person helping her is an English vampire with a caustic attitude and an eight-hundred-year-old grudge. Her only chance to remain free is to master the darkness within her and help him end his crusade against an ancient enemy.