On the roof of Cologne’s Dom Cathedral, an ancient vampire prepares to kill the woman who made her immortal.
Melino? was turned in 150 BCE and loved her maker for centuries—until devotion became jealousy, and eternity turned grief into something feral.
Told across eras of war, fire, and ruin, this gothic romance traces five stages of loss through ancient temples, revolutionary Paris, and the modern world, asking what it means to survive love when death is no longer an escape.
