PROLOGUE

In a fractured world where elves, vampires, and other ancient creatures fight for dominance, humans are left with only one duty: to offer their blood each month. Those who refuse simply disappear.

Liona lives in a secluded village, buried beneath eternal snow. Hidden. Forgotten. Until the day she offers her own blood for a little girl - for the first time.

One drop is all it takes.
Because her blood is different.
Forbidden.

Before she can understand what she's done, her village is gone.
And the secret in her blood may be the key to survival - or the cause of her destruction.