The second installment of a scorching new dark vampire romance series by the New York Times bestselling author, Lilith Saintcrow.

Lookout duty was a necessity in any vampire hunting team, but Layla Cartland wished it didn't involve pretend kissyface...

Joining a vampire-hunting crew was not the first bad decision Layla ever made, but it's the one she stuck with. Her role is support and lookout; she wasn't supposed to get close to the action. But everything goes wrong one hot summer night-and she ends up kidnapped by a monster.

The demimonde calls him Nemesis, a soldier with centuries of faithful service, unswervingly loyal until the one prize every sanguinant longs for appears. Now he must use all his age and cunning to keep his new leman, even as the one he served for so long arrives to take her by force.

Caught between two immortals, drowning in desire, Layla's nights are about to get a lot more dangerous...