Sarah defied her family and married for love beneath her station. Her happiness with Baron Marston was multiplied when they welcomed four children into their family. But a wasting sickness has overcome Sarah, one that has resisted every poultice and purge of the greatest doctors in England. Soon, it would claim her life–if it were not for the promise of one last sage, whose vampire’s kiss brings her not only eternal youth but a bond that transcends all human oaths. Can any mortal love, however strong, survive the seduction of an ageless vampire? Christmas is coming, and Sarah can only be at one hearth. This story is set in the history of the Aethereal Bonds world.