Plague season: Lucas collapsed at the apothecary's door. Although death should have followed, he received an untried remedy at the doctor's hand—the "Elixir of Life"; eternal life, eternal hunger, eternal damnation.
When he woke, and for three centuries since, he has struggled to reconcile the need for blood against his own existence.
The apothecary sought and failed to eradicate this immortal, passing the task to his son. Every generation has been charged with this duty, from father to son for three hundred years; but the creature is always one step ahead. Phineas is the last of his bloodline, the final hunter, and the most determined.
Banished to the silence of night, Lucas dreads death. His only reason for survival is escaping the torment that waits beyond the grave.
Until he meets Justine.
For the first time there is hope. If he's capable of love, is he capable of redemption? And will the hunter, her uncle, kill him before he has a chance to discover?