Wounded on the battlefield and left for dead, James awakens three days later to find that his life has changed forever. Now a vampire, he finds he can exist only at night and must drink blood in order to survive. For five centuries, he wanders alone until he meets Vanessa. Ten years of happiness follows until one day James finds that Vanessa has betrayed him by breaking the very code he lives by. Heartbroken and shattered, he leaves her. She vows he shall be with no other woman but her. Are her threats true? Must he live forever alone and afraid to love again?