Daniel landed in Berlin, Germany, over a year ago because he kept the wrong friends. Little did he know that he'd come to love the old city, his job, and his life in Europe. Now that Aiden has arrived, a quiet, red-headed, refuge from a war back in the states, Daniel is settling into a domestic life he never dreamed he'd have. The arrival of The Old One, the mother of all vampires, turns Daniel's domestic happiness on its head as she drags him away on an adventure through archaeological sites of Europe, America, and Egypt on a hunt for origin of vampires. Can Daniel, an ardent agnostic, walk through the birthplace of religion without questioning himself? And can he win the heart of a woman so destroyed by her past that she barely has hope for the future?