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

Michelle emerged from the shadows behind the counter, carrying a stack of books. Her face was smudged with dirt, and she looked the same as she always had. Jesse, accustomed to living with a vampire, had barely noticed that stasis, the skin that never seemed to age, or to change, until Michelle had confided her true nature to him. She called herself a Guardian, though Jesse could do no more than take her word for it. There were no secondary sources to confirm or deny her story. Well, he had more than her word. She did open the very fabric of reality to allow him to pass into another dimension. And she had met Gideon a little over a hundred years earlier.


“No. I thought you would have come to visit me sooner. How much did you lose?”


Jesse approached the counter. “Pretty much everything. I kept the extremely rare texts in the fire safe.”


Chapter 27