Isabella, the formidable matriarch of a vampire dynasty, is betrayed in battle by her lover, Asto. Sealed inside a “Blood Coffin,” she sleeps for nearly 800 years—only to awaken in the body of a modern high school girl… who bears her exact name. But the world she returns to is cruelly different. The once-mighty Castan family has fallen from power. Centuries of intermarriage with humans have thinned their vampire bloodline so much that they’re rejected by vampire society and mistrusted by humans—forced to cling to survival on the fringes of the vampire community. Reborn as Isabella, she unleashes terrifying strength. She shows no mercy to her great-grandson Liam, who has defected to a rival clan and committed atrocities. Even the teachers at school can’t help but feel intimidated by the pressure she radiates. Then she learns the truth: Oliver—her son from the old era—is dying. Isabella storms the castle. This time, she won’t let anyone lay a hand on Oliver again. She vows to expose Malcolm’s long-buried scheme and restore the Castans to their former glory. Yet modern life is its own battlefield. Phones, rules, classrooms—everything is unfamiliar. Caught between two centuries, Isabella adapts to technology, drills her weakened clan into fighters, and quietly sets her counterattack in motion.
