Cassandra Wynstrom is naively swept into her town's ploy to set a prophecy in motion: to begin the next war against the Empians, a deadly race that discovered a way to spawn vampires before their own extinction. Haunted by visions, Cassandra understands she must seek the sacred Temple that holds powerful gemstones, something a spirit has instructed her to do before its secrets are lost forever. And she must defeat her arch nemesis, the last surviving Empian named Lharkin. When Cassandra discovers that the same Temple she needs to get to is the same one that belongs to the Empians, she finally succumbs to Lharkin's seduction and becomes one of his kind. Traveling from 1880 North America to one of the islands of Madeira where the powerful Temple awaits, Cassandra knows she cannot help Lharkin defeat the humans who are coming for her rescue, yet she can't accept her prophecy of destroying Lharkin and his followers, either. She decides there is only one way to stop it all: redeem Lharkin's soul from darkness, before the war begins, so that he could cease his terrible plans However, in her quest to save his spirit, she discovers how dark and dangerous this venture becomes. Update: Book Two "Arising Son" and Book Three Three "Knight of Ra" coming 2015