Ending a curse was never meant to be easy. When Laura Dantonville learnt her family's well-kept secret and the reason for her inability to age, she never suspected it would impact her relationship with her police-detective boyfriend, Matt Sommers. But neither had she expected the growing attraction she and her vampire-guardian, Alec Munro, would have for each other. In those few days, Laura had entered the world of the Brethren - vampires who rule the city's dark underworld, and where resentment and anger grow at Alec's privileged position as daywalker. Among a powerful few, alliances are...