For 500 years Lenah Beaudonte has been a vampire - 500 years of seduction, blood and destruction.

But she is sickened by her dark powers - and longs to feel the sun on her skin, grass under her bare feet, and share the breath of a human kiss.

She wants to be mortal again. But is she really capable of being human, after her long years of darkness?

Waking up as a sixteen-year-old girl brings Lenah many things - the life she has missed, taste, touch, love.

But a vampire soul is not easily shed. And her coven - the four vampires she led in decadence and thrilling destruction - want their queen back...