For five years Deirdre Ione has served the vampire hordes as a blood slave, subjected to unimaginable horrors and incalculable pleasure. On the dawn of a rebellion, she manages to escape her captors and falls right into the hands of the last person she ever wished to see again. The dethroned prince of death himself, Triston Cartier. Her first instinct is to kill him—he’s responsible for her capture after all, but he proposes a trade she can’t refuse. If she will serve as his own personal blood slave, he will grant her full pardon from her contract to return home, with enough money to free and care for her family. If she doesn’t, he will return her to the cage—and to the monsters she serves. Being Triston’s slave is a fate akin to death, for his bite offers her a taste of submission so tantalizing she may not be able to resist.