Passionate love can sometimes turn into madness of cruelty. He is not the kind who knows how to forgive betrayal; he is not the kind who can feel pity. He isn’t even a person. Don’t wake the beast in him. But there are those who know how to push him to the brink—where he will become an executioner for the one person he has ever loved. Yet love doesn’t disappear without a trace: its echoes live under the ice crust in the wounded heart of a vampire, and perhaps there’s a chance to tame the madness of the beast.