Astarion Ascended is no longer merely a vampire spawn clawing at scraps of freedom. He is a perfected predator: elegant, cruel, theatrical, and utterly certain that the night belongs to him. Power rests on him like silk...

Spike, born William Pratt in 19th-century London, was once a hopeless romantic poet mocked by high society for his sentimental nature. Everything changed the night he was turned into a vampire by Drusilla, who saw darkn...