Melanie believes her future is shattered when her faithless fiancé casts her aside for her conniving stepsister. Desperate to escape an arranged sacrifice to the realm's most ruthless vampire sovereign, she flees the grand estate and impulsively marries a penniless commoner she meets on the street.
Determined to rebuild her life, Melanie tries to protect her quiet new husband from her family's cruel mockery and violent thugs. She has no idea that the modest clerk sleeping across the hall is the very monster she fled, quietly using his lethal royal authority to annihilate everyone who dared to hurt her.
