Kresley Cole achieved #1 New York Times best-seller status with her stunning Immortals After Dark novels. Here she begins a new paranormal series, set in the Lore of the Immortals world. As prince of Dacia's royal vampires, Trehan Daciano is a master assassin who desires nothing more than a sword in his hand- until he spies the beautiful sorceress Bettina. He enters a tournament to the death to win her hand, but Trehan doesn' t realize her heart already belongs to another.