Do You believe there is more to life than one dares to imagine. That our world is full of magic, radiant beauty and deep darkness. That there are enigmatic creatures coexisting with us and there is life after death...
Do You wish it was so?
A lot of kids in Lotus Orphanage did. They dreamt of wildest things and wished upon the stars.
Long in life, not all of them got their wish, yet Emella did, she got more than she was bargaining for. She got back the person she once lost, but he came with a price.
"Time is a funny thing. You don't see it, but You see it's handiwork, You don't feel time, and then sometimes You suddenly do, You feel how it has passed, or on the contrary, how it stops. But at that moment, it was as if time had rewind itself. It was, as if when Emella had turned her gaze from the sky, she would have seen Corvi lying next to her. So she didn't, she closed her eyes instead and let herself lay next to him once more."
On vuosi 1827. Leikattuaan hiuksensa ja vaihdettuaan mekot housuihin ja saappaisiin, pennitön 17-vuotias Beth seurasi sekavaa, ajan hampaisiin jäänyttä vampyyrilordia Euroopan halki kohti Verdenin pikkukaupunkia. Olisi kai kivaa olla ystävää sellaisen vertajanoavan, antiikkisen olennon kanssa, jota on lupautunut seuraamaan lopun ikäänsä, mutta Acario ei tunnu olevan ihan selvillä siitä, kuka Beth edes on. Elämä Erlebergin kartanossa kuulosti lupaavan rauhalliselta, mutta jokaisella talon ja sen lähistön asukkaalla on ongelmansa, jotka pikkuhiljaa kasaantuvat valtavaksi sotkuksi...