The granddaughter of the great Medici Duchy and queen of a bolstering kingdom, revered as a kind but foolish woman, dies in the most heartbreaking of ways, but as if God had laid his greatest favor upon her, she suddenly rises from her grave. A dead woman has come back to life, but she has changed; no longer was she gentle, warm, kind, and foolish, she was witty, fierce, and cruel. What will happen as the beautiful Antoinella finds herself craving the sweet scent of blood yet repulsed by the sight of it?