Arson forces Gideon Keel and his human lovers, Jesse Madding and Emma Coolidge, to find a new home after all their possessions are destroyed. Jesse and Emma are drawn to a decaying mansion that once served as a boarding school, but has long since sat abandoned. With its winding halls and haphazard wings, its private chapel, and its two-story library, the house is too fascinating to refuse.<br><br>But something sinister lurks in those winding halls. Something violent and dark. Something that locks the house, steals Gideon’s memories, possesses Emma’s body, and threatens Jesse’s life on the evening of their housewarming party. As the night progresses and the body count increases, Jesse must find a way to stop Gideon from killing their friends. Even harder, Jesse must convince the vampire who doesn’t remember him, or the love the three of them share, to fight for their lives.

Dominion

“They’ll help you blend in here,” she’d argued, her blue eyes flashing. “You don’t really want to be drawing even more attention to yourself, now do you?”


No, he didn’t, but he didn’t need an upstart pediatrician who’d never known how to keep herself out of trouble telling him what to do either.


There was another drawback to taking a shower. It left Gideon to his thoughts. It had them careening from questions about how the fire could have started, to how he could have slept through it, to what he would have done if Jesse hadn’t returned when he had. While Jesse had been taking Emma in, Gideon had called his most trusted friend on the Chicago police force, Derek O’Dell, to ask him to keep his eyes and ears open about the case. Derek’s promises meant something, but the lack of information so far had Gideon more wound up than the adrenaline of getting Emma out of the building in the first place.


Chapter 5