From the author of dark, lyrical, and Gothic works like PROVIDENCE GIRLS and THE SAINT OF HEARTBREAK comes a masterclass in Gothicism. In 1898 Paris, in an insidious and glittering world of vampires, werewolves, and fairies, thirty-year-old Maƫl agrees to be the familiar to Sebestyen, a peevish vampire lord, to save himself and give his sisters and his best friend, Alain, a better life. As their tumultuous bond progresses, peril looms when they both must contend with Sebestyen's vampiric masters, the cruel and golden-haired Habsburg twins who call themselves the King and Queen.