When Lavinia Orphic was 17, she had an encounter with a horrific creature, a tall and foreboding man who often took what he wanted. A year later Lavinia is showing signs of a supernatural infection and learns she cannot escape the past as easily as first thought. Lavinia must instead work with the past, finding where everything first went wrong, all while keeping her condition hidden from her lover. This is a story of psychological terror, of blood and vampires and dubiously romantic antics.