Awakening from a three-thousand-year slumber, vampire Progenitor Vincent faces the coming Blood Moon Tribulation and must bond with his fated one to survive. At the airport he meets Chloe, the terminally ill heiress of the Nightfall family, reviving her with a kiss and sealing a contract. Clueless about the modern world, Vincent is first swindled out of his clothes, then replaced by an impostor—until he storms the banquet in plastic slippers and crushes the fake. When the holy-relic-wielding antagonist Finch suppresses him, Chloe sacrifices herself to save him. To revive her, Vincent recovers the Fountain of Life with his old friend Cain and descendant Blake, even tearing out his own heart. On the blood-moon night they complete the Twin-Bond Ritual, and Vincent reclaims his throne—and his love.
