Matthew Trenton is damned. After committing unspeakable sin with his sister on the eve of her wedding, he is attacked, turned into a vampire, and is forced to destroy his maker. His immortal soul is torn. Shame and desperation drive him to leave his ancestral home in England for the New World.

He faces the reality of existing alone. Inwardly, he struggles to gain control of a dark power that urges him to kill his own kind. Outwardly, he finds comfort among mortal companions, but eventually, they die and his heart shatters over and over again.

Matthew believes his suffering is God's will. But what he learns on his 300 year journey is that his blood is divided. Now the time is at hand for Matthew to evolve, and someone is coming to help him right the wrongs of his past.