Their families are bitter enemies, their love forbidden... Mason Morin has everything he's ever wanted. A successful Hollywood surgeon and real estate mogul, his life is a nonstop party-one that helps him to forget his heart-breaking past, and the blue-eyed man he left behind so long ago. Julien Davenant is a ruthless killer, the unwilling heir to an empire built on lies, betrayal, and pain. His life has been spent in penance-not only for the suffering he's caused his brother, but for the pain he brought upon himself-the unforgivable sins that cost him the only man he's ever loved. When a sadistic war criminal, determined to unlock the genetic secrets of the Brethren vampire race, captures them both, Mason and Julien are introduced to a dark underworld of brutal cage fighting, human trafficking, and drugs. If they're to have any hope of survival, they must work together, rebuilding the trust-and love-they thought lost centuries earlier.