It's 1941, and Nina is with the Australian Army Nurses Service in Singapore. What happens to her when the city falls to the Japanese will shatter Nina's soul. But life seems determined to give her more than she can bear. When her sister dies in a car crash, Nina is informed that she must take her place as an Inherited Servant, a human bound to the vampire world. She will be given to Lord Alistair, a vampire who sees Nina as his property, to do with as he pleases. Even as she fights the decision, the ways in which Alistair commands her surrender lead her to a terrifyingly different understanding of her will and her dreams. By binding herself to him, can she become whole again, but in a way she never expected?