One kiss can seal your fate... Cara DeLongpre wandered into themysterious Nocturne club looking for a fleeting diversion from hersheltered life. Instead she found a dark, seductivfe stranger whosetouch entices her beyond the safety she's always known and into a headycarnal bliss... A year ago, Vincent Cordova believed that vampiresexisted only in bad movies and bogeyman stories. That was before achance encounter left him with unimaginable powers, a hellish thirst,and an aching loneliness he's sure will never end...until the night hemeets Cara DeLongpre. Cara's beauty and bewitching innocence call to hismind, his heart...his blood. For Vincent senses the Dark Gift sahred byCara's parents, and the lurking threat from an ancient and powerful foe.And he knows that the only thing more dangerous than the endmy waitingto seek its vengeance is the sercret carried by those Cara trusts themost.