A brutal treaty has long bound the living to the dead: a human queen must always sit beside the Vampyr King.
King Vastion has outlived six such queens, and with the latest crown fallen, the territories of Devana prepare for the next Season and the tribute ceremony known as the Harvest.
Four human women will be considered, and only one will take the throne.
From the fringe territory of Leto, Esiree's family means for her to claim it as part of a plot to bring the Vampyr to their knees.
Cut off from other humans inside the Vampyr city, she must marry Vastion and win both his trust and his heart if she is to destroy his kind, even as her defiance and sharp wit turn her into the weakness he never expected.
As the Forlorn, monstrous remnants of the Blood Reign, threaten humans and Vampyr alike, Esiree must choose between the mission that sent her and a truth she never imagined.
