In this volume there's introduction of characters, Ether a medic nun, who runs away from the church during the epidemic, when the church refused to treat the patients, and was loosing it's morale, she sets out to find if the rumours about the vampire lord who has knowledge beyond comprehension and is the most cruel being known in all 3 realms, after days, she finds the castle of Errick, the vampire lord, and she offers her blood in exchange for his knowledge, but he refuses and puts a condition to prove herself before him, so she does, and there begin the journey of the hatred and resentment along with mingling lust and desire, and mysteries unfold one after another ,this volume ends on cliffhanger.....