Fleeing the pain of losing her 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.
Maeve also finds herself facing another battle, though not one of the heart—whether or not to succeed the cold and powerful Lisette as the reigning queen of the vampires. Maeve must navigate brutal wars of both human and immortal making—not to mention her own desires—as the forces of life and death threaten to destroy everything she has come to cherish.