Sometimes, it’s the point when you achieve your dream that the real trouble begins. Ever since the day Vesper became a lord, he’s been forced to dodge a seemingly endless stream of troubles raining down upon him. It’s not as simple as merely finding a way to feed and pay his own Family, oh no. The real trouble begins when he has to find a way to co-operate with the other vampire lords, each with hundreds of years of experience and no patience for a young upstart with new ideas of how things should be done. There is no trail of blood-red roses to lead the young former nighter along the road to success. Luckily for him, the world itself is crying out for the Inanité family, a middle ground who are neither fully good nor fully evil. The whole vampire community looks to them in a time of danger and uncertainty. Rumors swirl that there are lethal enemies poised to attack the vampire clans, to poison the kindred bloodlines and wipe them out once and for all. The final hand is about to be dealt, and nothing will ever be the same again. In the Vesper Series, nothing is ever set in stone, not even the basic truths of good and evil. No one is immune to the temptations of immortal life…