When Fae awakens in an unfamiliar home, he has no memory of how he got there-or of much else.

Only three things are clear to him. First, he is a vampire. Second, he burns, at his center, with an inexplicable and implacable anguish. The third he keeps to himself, unwilling to risk reaching the limit of his hosts’ kindness. He’ll stay with them until he regains his strength, then flee-no harm done.

When Roa came upon the unconscious vampire on his family’s ranch, he was wholly unprepared to find himself attracted to the handsome stranger. His life-the love of his family and his clan-had always been enough for him, before. But as quiet, brilliant Fae recovers, then chooses to stay in Roa’s ancestral home, it becomes clear to him that he wants something more... just as it becomes clear that something is terribly wrong.

In the face of insurmountable grief, how can love survive?