Jesse Madding wakes up one morning to discover everything has changed and he is completely alone, both Emma and Gideon gone. Betrayed by the last person he’d expect, the life he once had is over, and a new existence must somehow be forged.<br><br>Aching with the loss, Jesse vows to do everything he can to overcome the lies, return home, and find the vampire that makes his life worth living.

A Renaissance in Blood

But he threw himself sideways anyway, and when the hot stab blazed through his arm, he did what he’d been doing in his nightmares for the past six weeks.


It was the stuff of Gideon’s nightmares.


He hadn’t been there. He couldn’t have been there. At the time, there had been no rational reason for him to be there at all. It was something that happened five days a week, never with problems. Gideon had no place going with Jesse when he took Emma to work at the museum. The sun was up, and he was usually working all night, and…


He should have been there. Whenever he finally managed to sleep during the last six weeks, his nightmares were always the same.


Both of them calling for him. And Gideon unable to find them.


Each scream left him paralyzed. Even now, he couldn’t move. It didn’t make a difference how loud or how close—


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