The passionate story of Tessa and Hardin continues as family secrets, deep betrayals, and career opportunities threaten to tear them apart.

He never knew life could be this way, but truly if he did, he wouldn't have cared. He cared about nothing, not even himself until her. Before her, he was empty/ Before her he knew nothing of joy or completion, and this is his journey to his life After her.

After choosing to live rather than succumb to her fate, Emily has to adjust to her new life as a creature of the night. Which is hard enough even without the sudden onset of nightmares and the overbearing guilt of causing the death of the vampire prince, Sebastian. During a trip to visit the late prince's grave, Emily and Vincent find it dug up and destroyed... with Sebastian's body missing.