Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.

I am a vampire. I know nothing of my past, but intend to create a new future. I have no sympathy for mere humans; their weaknesses engulf them in an illusion entirely of their own making. I relish their screams; I live off their blood. But something is lurking in the dark. Something more deadly and terrifying than anyone has seen before. It could be my undoing. Humans fear me. I fear the Ashkins.

Faye was normal once. She had a good father, a decent step-mother, two brothers off at university and her best friend. What started as a normal day ended off being the beginning of a whole lot of ugly that threatens everything she once knew. With the help of her best friend, Laura and the two mysterious teens, Leon and Jasia, Faye goes full force into a war she was never prepared for. If things couldn't get worse, along the way a secret that Faye was never aware of surfaces and the loss of someone near and dear to her heart threatens to destroy her will to keep fighting.