From the moment Lady Arlanna Valkiern could think for herself, she wanted nothing more than to live normally, but being seventeen and third in line for High Elder of the entire vampire race isn’t something anyone can just walk away from, and to top it off the dead come to her for aid. When a friend convinces her overly protective family to allow her to transfer from an all-vampire school to an institution where all variations of species reside, Arlanna is given freedom for the first time in her life.

In this freedom she learns that there is strength in friendship and love, but more importantly she discovers the truth of a deadly secret residing within herself. After Arlanna’s eighteenth birthday, she is ordered to partake in an outdated ritual to produce a child from the purest of vampires and the strongest of werewolves, a child to be sacrificed in blood, flesh, and soul.

She also learns that everything the High Counsel desires from this ritual is already within her very being. She must learn to hide her new true self before anyone discovers her true bloodline, otherwise death will meet her with a swift ending.

Arlanna's life will forever be altered as she grows into the lady she is destined to become. She must prove her worth as a leader and learn how to protect those she has befriended.

The loyalty of those she calls family will be tested as her true bloodline reveals itself. The dead Arlanna once aided to cross over are demanding to speak once again, because she is the only one who can protect everything they once were.

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