Note: Numbered according to SherrilynKenyon.com Dark-Hunter universe master numbering list.

Synopsis: Velkan Danesti became a Dark-Hunter when his attempt to remove his wife Esperetta from the influence of her father in Romania in 1476. Esperetta of the House Dracul, Dracula's daughter. They took a poison to escape her father, but he stabbed her through the heart to make sure she wasn't feigning her death. Because Velkan had used his mother's sorceries to bind their lives together (like the bonding of mates for the Katagaria / Arcadians, but he neither). He swore his existence to the service of Artemis for vengeance, and killed Dracula. Little did he know that Esperetta was now undead like him because of his binding. Now the daughter of Dracula, married to the man was killed by and who killed Dracula, returns to Moldavia after 530 years...