For centuries, Marabella, Damion, and Alexander have endured the endless war between vampires and witches. They have seen villages burn, thousands executed, and entire towns wiped from the earth. In vengeance, the witches unleashed the Black Death, a plague that claimed millions of human lives. With their prey gone, vampires descended into madness, their hunger driving them to the brink of ruin. Now, with the world scarred by blood and shadow, Marabella, Damion, and Alexander must decide where their loyalties lie-because the war has not ended. It has only changed.

The phantom of a missing best friend returns to her missing half. He goes to a party where she begs him to see her again. He caves in and agrees to meet her at a lake that no one knows about.