For 500 years Lenah Beaudonte has been a vampire. 500 years of seduction, blood and destruction. But she is sickened by her dark powers โ and longs to feel the sun on her skin, grass under her bare feet, and share the breath of a human kiss. She wants to be mortal again. But is she really capable of being human, after her long years of darkness? Waking up as a sixteen-year-old girl brings Lenah many things โ the life she has missed, taste, touch, love. But a vampire soul is not easily shed. And her coven โ the four vampires she led in decadence and thrilling destruction โ want their queen back . . .