She anchors her life to music. He holds the keys to her forgotten past.
Loving her means losing her. Over and over again.
For centuries, vampire scholar Everest Hendry has lived with that devastating, impossible truth.
But to gifted pianist Elma Carlo, he is nothing more than an arrogant, reclusive stranger. She has built a carefully composed life in Middle C, anchored by a fiercely loyal, gloriously eccentric group of friends who keep her laughing through the chaos.
Then a single glimpse of Everest’s photograph knocks her world completely out of tune.
Obscure, centuries-old texts begin to make sense. Hours vanish from her memory. Nightmares leave her trembling in the New Hampshire woods. And the people she trusts most are suddenly guarding impossible secrets.
Every answer fractures another certainty. Friends can be monsters. Monsters can be allies. And Everest—the dangerous academic pulling her deeper into the mystery—feels more familiar than anyone she has ever known.
He is determined to protect Elma from a supernatural threat he refuses to explain, even if his idea of protection begins with kidnapping her and deteriorates from there. As their flight takes them from the wilds of Alaska to the hidden world of Vienna, Elma is drawn into a conflict far older—and far more personal—than she realizes.
Backed by a sharp-witted team of protective werewolves and a two-hundred-year-old occult scientist, Elma must embrace an identity both foreign and fierce—and learn to wield her power before a dark legacy claims her forever.
And the closer Everest draws to Elma, the harder it becomes to keep himself from falling in love with her.
Again.
Her mind may have forgotten Everest. But her soul remembers.
