Irena has loved her maker from afar for centuries, keeping him at a distance because he was also her sister’s mate. Now, with Melissande dead and gone at the hands of a vampire hunter, she still feels the forbidden pull between them that has been hounding her since before her creation. And Ezekiel’s grief only makes it harder to do what she knows she must: stage a coup and take over his reign as Master of Nightwalkers before he burns it—and them—all to the ground in his grief. Ezekiel has managed to fight his unholy attraction to his mate’s sister for five hundred years. Now that his beloved has been murdered in cold blood, he’ll have to fight more than just their attraction as Irena tries to overthrow him and take his seat as Master.