Alicia was written off as a curse and dumped by the Lester mafia family. The head of the Dracula vampire house took her in instead, and at fifteen she became a daywalker, untouched by sunlight that burns her kind.
At eighteen she walks back through the Lester gates to take the family apart. She peels the masks off the fake heiress and her stepmother, drags the truth about her arranged marriage into the open, and watches her biological father return too late, dying in another man's place. Dmitri, who guarded her while she grew up, stays at her side through the last kill and the walk into dawn.
