When Michael saw a woman twenty paces away from him, he no doubt knew that it was her blood that called him, and her scent that awakened him. This woman tied his soul and returned it to him. The soul of the Survivor, He is the last of his race. The only real vampire king. Michael Aristov wanders into Los Angeles nightclubs after dark, haunted by the past, driven by hunger. The last of the ancients, he alone survived the destruction of his race at the hands of murderers. Now he is forced to hunt and feed like an ordinary vampire, a creature of lust.