Desperate to locate her missing sister, Gabrielle Langston travels to San Francisco expecting to find Linna in a fanatical Goth community of wannabe blood suckers. Instead Gabrielle discovers real -- real! -- vampires, sexy gargoyles, and an undead prince intent on claiming her as his bride.
Though it was over eight hundred years ago a vampire killed his young bride, the scars on Davin McCain's soul burn deep. He has risked his life for the Guardians for eight centuries, yet never again has he risked his heart. But when he rescues feisty Gabrielle, Davin is lost to the charms of the pretty, green-eyed human. Her dangerous idea to infiltrate the vampire coven is the only chance the Guardians have to finally locate the vampire “Palace,” and Davin realizes while he's just found the mate he wants by his side for eternity, he could lose her in mere days.
Gabrielle is swept into a cataclysmic war between the Guardians; an ancient sect of gargoyles charged with policing vampire kind, and a maniacal vampire king who intends to enslave humanity for the sinful pleasures of vampires worldwide. A war to which Gabrielle alone holds the key to success or failure.