To Ethan, the greatest adventure in life is learning or discovering something new, which can be done in the pages of a book as well as any crazy adventure. Dedicated to work and nonstop study, he rarely takes the time to look up from the research of life's tiniest building blocks to take in the world around him. Belief that science has the answer has necessarily made him a skeptic that has him doubting until he sees the proof.

Second daughter to the Vasile, Lord of the vampires under the Carpathian Mountains, Caterina has long led her family clan through long eras of trials and secret survival. Monotony may finally be broken when what she has sought for cycles upon cycles is within her grasp: a vampire worthy of being molded into someone great, and one day even her equal.

For years Jon has been resolutely focused on one goal for his life: to become an emergency room physician. He's left him family and home in London to pursue his dream in New York City, but just as his goal was becoming reality, his world went mad. Bitten by a monster somewhere between beast and human, he finds himself in a body with different rules and a reality that could only be insane.