Gerard de Vigors died in the fall of 1855 at "Ransom," his family's plantation just south of New Orleans. He was ten years old. One-hundred and fifty years later, Jack Trask is facing a death sentence from cancer. Lured by the sales pitch of an online "vampire hunter," he has spent a small fortune traveling around the world in search of the one being he feels can save him. Now, in the ruins of that ancient and long forgotten plantation, Jack comes face to face with the creature he has been seeking for nearly a year. And it's not what he was expecting.