Windsor, England, 1815. A beautiful vampire awakes from a 300-year-old sleep. Confused, suffering from memory loss, she only knows her name by the engraved pendant she wears on her neck, which reads: 'To Eleanor, Eternally yours, Philip'. The first mortal she encounters is the Romantic poet Percy Shelley, who takes her home to the cottage he shares with his lover Mary Godwin.
A year later the three friends, along with Mary's stepsister Claire and Eleanor's new love Timothy, journey to Lake Geneva in Switzerland to stay with the infamous Lord Byron at his villa. One stormy night, a mysterious acquaintance of the poet joins them. He is introduced as Philip de Vere. He knows Eleanor but she does not know him, other than he may be the Philip who gave her the pendant. Why does he claim to know her? What secret does he hold from her past?
After Byron suggests that they should all write a ghost story, Eleanor begins to write a vampire tale - her own - and soon her memories come flooding back and with them the truth of her past. Not only is she a bloodsucking vampire, but she also possesses the power of second sight. When visions of Shelley’s impending death in a boating accident start to haunt her, the only way she knows how to save him is to give him immortality. But at what cost? With the ancient vampire Scylla now hot on their trail, her wrath about to be unleashed, time is running out for everyone.
An imaginative fantasy, smoothly woven into historical fact, Poet’s Blood is the final part of the Blood of the Gods Trilogy, an epic tale of passion, greed and enchantment.