He was a journalist hunting a story. He found a predator hunting a legacy. Stan is a man of facts, but nothing in his career prepared him for Julian Butterworth. Julian is a billionaire, a kingmaker and the most powerful man in Dalivania. He is also something ancient, cold-blooded and terrifyingly non-human. What starts as a high-stakes story quickly spirals into a feverish, unhinged obsession. Something that leads into a secret relationship but in the world of the Butterworths, secrets don't just stay buried—they breathe.