A kingdom where vampires rule and humans serve, Elara, a palace maid with strange secrets, falls for the cold Vampire King Lucien. Their love is forbidden, and it's threatened when she learns he's engaged to Seraphine, a ruthless heiress who turns the palace maids against her.As servants vanish and dark forces rise, Elara's childhood friend, the sea king Dorian, returns to protect her. Caught between two kings, Elara must uncover the truth about who she really is before Seraphine's deadly ritual destroys the kingdom.

Elena has loved Damian since she was a teenager sneaking glances at her brother's intimidating best friend. To him, she was always the kid sister he had to protect until she confessed her feelings and he shut her down cold. Years later, she returns from university transformed, and the boy who once saw a child now can't look away from the woman standing in front of him. But Damian runs an empire built on blood and secrets, and letting himself want her could get her killed. When a rival syndicate proves exactly how right he was to be afraid, Damian has to choose between the walls he's built and the girl who's always been his.