The vampire who'd come to kill Mickey Taniss for her grandfather's crimes is tough, hard, beautiful and dangerous. She has no hope of escaping him in a physical confrontation. So she'll just have to outwit him.

Theodoric Sebastos, ancient judge of the Dardaptoan vampire race, has sentenced Mickey and her sister to death for their grandfather's actions. Once he catches her, one fact becomes evident--she is the mate he's been searching hundreds of years to find.

Mickey is human and innocent of any wrong-doing--and in danger from far more than just the vampires surrounding them. Theo has to find a way to protect her from his own people before the otherworldly threats stalking her catch up to her.