Cinis

When Valentine's sire is forced to take a mate by his Clan leader, Valentine is reduced to stoking the castle's furnaces as nothing more than a cindered servant to the new matriarch. With his sire Libertine incarcerated and Valentine forced to wear a cursed collar, there seems no way to escape Belladonna's hold on them.

When a stranger appears, Valentine is surprised by how quickly he trusts the other vampire. He accepts the request to go to the castle of his Clan Lord, the ancient and powe...