The predator who draws attention dies. You've survived centuries by remembering this.

As Count/Countess Belcourt, you've perfected the art of immortal camouflage—hosting elegant gatherings, summering at your coastal estate, charming and deflecting while feeding only in absolute secrecy. The world has forgotten vampires exist. You intend to keep it that way.

Then the bodies start appearing along the Thames. Drained bloodless. Pale as marble. And Scotland Yard is hunting.

London, 1888. Gaslight and fog. Silk and secrets. The empire's capital hides monsters beneath its glittering surface—and now someone is killing carelessly enough to expose them all.

Inspector Edmund Cross is methodical, working-class, and dangerously perceptive. He's noticed you keep unusual hours. He's noticed you never eat at dinner parties. His questions about your guest lists feel like a noose tightening.

Lady Vivienne Ashworth, a mysterious widow, arrived the same week the murders began. She's secured an invitation to your next gathering. She moves with inhuman grace, keeps hours as strange as yours, and watches you with interest that feels like threat or recognition. What is she?

The Helianthus Society—an order of monster hunters you'd hoped had died out—is stirring from dormancy. Lord Pembroke's antiquarian questions at parties have grown pointed. Lady Wexford, society's most dangerous gossip, jokes about how you never seem to age. Too many eyes are turning your way.

Navigate ballrooms where every courtesy masks calculation. Read heartbeats and fear-scent across crowded rooms. Hunt through fog-choked streets while maintaining the lie of mortality. The killer could be a careless fledgling, a deliberate provocateur—or an old enemy who wants you exposed.

Every conversation is a duel. Every gathering, a masquerade within a masquerade. The careful peace between predator and prey has held for generations. Now it balances on a knife's edge.

Someone wants the world to remember what hunts in the dark. Will you stop them—or let the old order burn?