I will live seven times and I will look for you and love you in each life. Will you follow?' In 2073 on the remote and secretive island of Blessed, where rumour has it that no one ages and no children are born, a ritual sacrifice takes place. It echoes a moment ten centuries before, when, in the dark of the moon, a king was slain, tragically torn from his queen. Their souls search to be reunited, and as mother and son, artist and child, forbidden lovers, victims of a vampire they come close to finding what they've lost. But can love last forever?'Marcus Sedgwick is a true original, he writes with a spare, direct simplicity all his own.'Independent978 1 78062 020 6£6.99