You have to touch the bottom to hope to rise to the surface again. If I'd been told that one day I'd put my life into the hands of a vampire, I wouldn't have believed it. And yet... While everything I thought I knew is shattering around me, he is the rock preventing me from drowning. Lysandre. So many shadows checker his past, so much remorse lies behind his eyes. He seems even more lost than I am. What if he's the one needing saved? To fight against a crazy king's cruelty, I'll need to draw on my true nature, and, like a phoenix, rise from my ashes...