"It's like you were created solely to be my ruin, my sweet agony...but we both know you were meant for more than that, don't we?" A god amongst his race, and a tyrant to others, Kaius Voroninov has only one desire in the Mortality. When whispers in the dark begin to speak of Kaius holding the cursebreaker prisoner in his Obsidian Palace, discontent festers within his once loyal subjects. Dark forces control his fate, and his mortality is not the only thing Adelasia LeMasters unknowingly hides within her soul. A thousand years of bloodlust has left him cruel and merciless, but Kaius must face the dreadful reality that vampirism has never been his true curse. It’s always been her. It will always be her.