And lo, the elders spoke, saying, The moon shall rise in crimson fire, and it shall be a sign unto the people, a covenant of blessing and renewal.
- The Holy Gailhorix, Book of the Auncestri
Chapter 7, Verse 12
Thyrisa Auncestri was born for a crown of blood.
Beneath Aganasta’s Blood Moon, she is meant to surrender her mortality and bind her soul to Thornmal, the ancient Idomini chosen to awaken the vampire queen within her. But when Lycans shatter the sacred rite, Thyrisa seizes the one thing her crown could never give her: freedom.
Her escape leads her into the frozen wilds and straight to Bakari, a Lycan warrior trained to hunt her kind. He should kill her. She should hate him. Instead, he tempts her with a life, and a love, she might finally choose for herself.
But Thornmal is not so easily left behind. Caught between a Lycan whose touch defies centuries of bloodshed and a demon whose darkness calls to her own, Thyrisa must choose between the freedom she desires and the bond fate has already begun to forge.