Calliope Sangseer did not realize the price she would have to pay to escape her pain. After becoming a vampiric countess, she was forced to marry the tyrant son of a powerful vampiric family. Her husband is returning from war and Calliope needs to escape. She hires Maeve Clovenhoof, a witch who adorns herself with antlers, to get her out of the marriage. Maeve eagerly agrees to help, all while facing the promise she made to her lost gods. It is not that simple, however, as ancient vampiric power, religious extremism, a dead society, and personal traumas are bled into adventure and love. General trigger warnings for the following; forced marriage, blood, homophobia, transphobia, religious extremism, genocide, violence, power imbalance, sex/sexual themes, kink.