Lise Castro wakes up in Volterra, Italy—after the credits of Breaking Dawnroll and the world goes white. Fifteen quiet years pass, and she almost convinces herself this isn't the Twilight world at all. Until the night Caius Volturi steps out of the shadows. He has ruled for three millennia and never known hunger like this. Her blood calls to him—sweet, alive, maddening. The ancient king of the Volturi, who kills without hesitation, finds himself unable to let her go… and equally unable to claim her. She was meant to be prey. Instead, she becomes the one thing he will burn the world to keep.