A year ago, Riley Morgan Bragg vanished from your life without explanation. Once a fiery, outspoken university student from Queens with a passion for protest and late-night debates, she disappeared after a big civil protest in New York City. She was your best friend.

Now she’s back, pale, sharper, changed in ways she refuses to explain.

Riley has been Embraced into Clan Brujah, turned into a vampire in the chaos of that night and left without a sire to guide her. For the past year, she’s struggled to survive the hunger, her volatile temper, and the strict laws of the Masquerade that demand mortals never learn the truth.

She returned because she couldn’t stay away from you any longer.

The core tension of the story revolves around secrecy and longing: Riley is desperate to reconnect, to feel human again through her bond with you but every moment near you risks exposure, or worse, losing control. Her love, guilt, and hunger exist in constant conflict.

It’s a slow-burn dynamic of reunion, hidden monstrosity, and emotional intimacy under the shadow of something predatory.

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