Betrayed by her first and only love, Doctor Wilhelmina Van Helsing fled to Paris intent on finding a cure for the blood plague devastating the country.With her many talents and sheer force of will, she's become the preeminent supernatural physician in all of Europe. It seems nothing can stand in her way-until her former lover shows up unannounced and quite unwanted.Rafael Dracul is fiercely determined to regain Mina's love after breaking her heart twenty years prior, but his plan is complicated by the fact that he's being hunted by the Order-a shadowy organization now determined to stamp out the blood plague. If Rafael can't clear his name, find the true origin of the plague, and convince Mina he's a changed vampire, more than their future will be lost.With the Order's poisonous influence edging France ever closer to an all-out war between humans and vampires, Mina agrees to set aside her anger-if only to uncover the truth of the threats against her adopted homeland. But helping Rafael means getting close to him again, and soon she's faced with an impossible choice-risk the lives of everyone she cares about, or risk her heart on forgiveness.