Even predators are hunted by something. Zelara has spent her life dedicated to eradicating the Vampyre plague, and that dedication cost her everything. When a choice with no true option leads her to being exiled from the only life she's ever known, Zelara finds herself at the mercy of the very creatures she's protected, and those that she's hunted. Blood and pain have been some of the most prevalent things in her life, but stepping foot into a human village sets her onto a path of discovering the depths of each. On that path brings clarity to what it is inside blood that causes such pain, but she already knows... Sometimes the things that hurt you the most are the things that don't try to.