Ivan Tepes was once a powerful prince. But betrayalbroke his world and took the only thing that madehim human... his wife.Now, for centuries, he lived in the shadows, amonster of myth and whispered superstition. Bloodwas his only solace, violence his only language.Eternity was his curse.In rage and despair, Ivan gave himself to thedarkness, trading his soul for immortality andbecoming something monstrous in the hopes oneday his one true love would return to him.And then there was Clara. An identical reincar‐nation of his wife, Mircalla. She bore a new name, anew life without the memories of them that he held, but her soul was the same. He'd found her again, and this time, he wouldn't let her go.Clara feared him. Yet beneath the terror wassomething else-an echo of what they once were toeach other. He was her captor, but soon, she'dremember the lover, husband, and man who killedin her memory just to ease the undying pain herabsence left.She would be his again even if he must drag heracross the threshold of light and shadow tokeep her.Their story was one of obsession and betrayal, but underneath all of it was a love so relentless itde!ed death itself.A dark, gothic, and romantic reimagining whereDracula meets Nosferatu.