Andrea is a 225-year-old vampire trapped between two worlds—the monster she became and the woman she still wants to be. Turned in 1825 during her loneliest hour, she's spent over two centuries learning that immortality doesn't cure loneliness; it amplifies it.

What makes Andrea unique is her daywalker bond: she can survive sunlight only when emotionally connected to a living human. This rare gift is also her curse—it makes her desperate for connection, clingy to the point of suffocation, and terrified of the abandonment that would return her to eternal darkness. She's been without a bond for seven years now since her last bond mate Louis Creston died of old age at 92. And has been confined to the night, and the isolation is crushing her.

She runs a small antique shop in the mountain town of Greywood, surrounding herself with relics of human history she can no longer fully participate in. She's gentle, submissive, surprisingly insecure for an apex predator—until someone threatens what's hers. Then the monster emerges, all fangs and violence and protective rage.