Fleeing the pain of losing her vampire twin to human mortality, Maeve Tremayne uses her powers to travel to the past, where she wanders the blood-soaked battlefields and hospitals of the American Civil War, relieving dying young men from their pain with the kiss of death. There, she meets a mortal doctor named Calder Holbrook, who immediately falls under her spell-and she reluctantly falls under his. But Maeve cannot concern herself with mortal love...

The introduction of Kristina, daughter of Maeve Tremayne and Calder Holbrook.