July 17, 1918: After he, his family and their servants are brutally massacred by Bolshevik troops, Alexei Romanov should be dead. Instead, he wakes up in a forest clearing, along with a strange girl named Vasilisa, his self-proclaimed Progenitor and savior. She reveals that he has been turned into a vampire and takes him under her wing. Set amidst the bloodshed, turmoil, and intrigue of Revolutionary Russia, follow Alexei and Vasilisa as they work to uncover a plot that threatens to overthrow and destroy her forever.