“If I have to choose…I’ll take the kind of monster all the others fear.”

On the anniversary of her mother's death, Lily visits a downtown tattoo parlor in search of memorial ink, but the moment the brooding artist touches her, something awakens: a supernatural gift that lets her hear the dead. But in Austin’s vampire underworld, that ‘gift’ either makes her a powerful weapon to be wielded, or a dangerous threat to be eliminated. 

Tattoo artist Cassini is a powerful vampire in exile, hiding his true identity and bound by a blood oath that weakens him with every sunrise. With his enemies closing in, Lily's rare power could be his salvation or her destruction.

When a local girl goes missing, they're forced into an alliance that blurs every line between ally and predator. But the closer they become, the more Cassini fears the truth: he may not be able to protect her from the darkness hunting them both.

Or from himself…