In the dawn of a new millennium, the goddess Morrigan must forge a new race of warriors to protect both Faerie and the human world from an unimaginable evil. Her hopes rest on the young soldier she has chosen to beget her line of vampires... until love and betrayal threaten to destroy her plans and doom both worlds. This short story is a prequel to the Cin Craven series, first published in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance.