Twenty-year-old Isabella De Luca has everything money can buy. Born into one of the wealthiest families in the city, she has lived a life of luxury, surrounded by beautiful mansions, expensive gifts, and people who would do anything to earn her family's favor. But behind the glittering world she calls home lies a secret her family has protected for generations.Then she meets Alexander Blackwood.Handsome, mysterious, and dangerously powerful, Alexander is a man unlike anyone Isabella has ever known. His cold eyes hide centuries of loneliness, and his touch awakens feelings she cannot explain. Drawn to him despite the warnings echoing in her mind, Isabella begins to fall for the one man she should never love.Because Alexander is no ordinary man.He is a vampire, an immortal creature who has survived centuries by keeping his heart as cold as his victims' blood. He has spent hundreds of years avoiding human attachment, convinced that love is a weakness that can destroy even the most powerful being.Until Isabella.Their attraction grows into a love neither of them can control, but their worlds are separated by more than mortality. Ancient enemies are watching, dark secrets are beginning to surface, and Isabella's wealthy family may know far more about Alexander than they are willing to admit.As danger closes in, Isabella must decide whether to trust the man who has stolen her heart or protect the life she has always known. Alexander, meanwhile, faces an impossible choice: remain the monster the world believes him to be, or risk everything for the woman who has made him feel alive again.In a world where bloodlines determine destiny, secrets can destroy kingdoms, and immortality comes at a terrible price, can a human woman and a vampire build a love strong enough to defy fate?Or will the darkness that brought them together tear them apart forever?