Sasealia had believed the old vampire stories were mere bedtime warnings from her parents until a princess with a vicious bite turns her into one. Thrust into a world of hunger and half truths, she flees back to the town that raised her, hoping to continue living as normal. But as the town's tidy explanations unravel, old rumors take on a deadly new meaning. Torn between the craving that could doom her people and the loyalties that still bind her, Sasealia must decide whether to embrace the monster she's become or risk everything to stop the one who made her.