The Dominion are making a play for the future of humanity. They have achieved corporeality...with the help of a traitor Embraced.Jade has been entrusted with the keeping of a Vampir known for his ruthlessness. The Embraced need him in the fight against the Dominion, but even his own friends consider him dangerous. As a Priestess of the Morrigan, Jade can handle most anything, but perhaps not Niccolo Romano.Jade looks damn good to Niccolo, but she proves resistant to his charms. Soon bedding her becomes a mission, but he takes one step too far in his quest to possess her and soon she possesses his heart.Jade has secrets she wants to keep, but Niccolo has a way of laying her bare in more ways than one. Every time Niccolo seduces her to his bed-sometimes gently, sometimes not-he unravels another piece of her history, bringing up long repressed sexual need and emotion.Soon Niccolo is fighting two battles-one against the Dominion and the other for Jade.