Five hundred years of fear. One broken rule. A kingdom about to bleed. Daniel Clark is the Blood King of Noctharis. To look at him is a death sentence. To defy him is extinction. He survived five centuries by locking away his humanity—until the night he chose to unlock it. Tired of being the monster in the dark, Daniel does the impossible: he goes cold turkey on human blood. No vampire king has ever survived starvation. As his immortal biology violently revolts, his empire smells blood in the water. But his greatest threat isn't the agonizing withdrawal. It’s his brother, waiting in the shadows to take the crown from a king who dared to feel. The beast is starving. The brother is hunting. Who dies first?