Six months after the terrifying events that turned her world upside down, paramedic Lucy Barker is doing her best to move on. New shifts, new routines, and a determined effort to pretend that the things she saw, and the things she did, belong to someone else’s life. It’s working. Almost.

Then a stranger appears in the shadows of a York cinema, and everything she’s tried to bury comes flooding back.

A new vampire has arrived in the city. Charming, dangerous, and carrying secrets that stretch back over a century, he brings with him a version of events that casts the one person Lucy thought she could trust in a very different light. As bodies begin to appear on the streets of York and the fragile peace of the city fractures, Lucy finds herself caught between two immortal men with a history she is only beginning to understand, and a past that may be far darker than either of them has let on.

Some histories are better left buried. Some questions, once asked, cannot be unasked.