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In the waning years of the Roman Empire, a disciplined soldier refuses the advances of a strange, captivating woman who lingers too long in the shadows. Spurned, she reveals her true nature-a witch, ancient and wrathful-and curses him to wander the earth as a bloodthirsty creature, neither living nor dead. He will know no rest, no sunlight, no peace, she tells him, until he finds his "salvation"-a woman whose presence alone can return his mortality, though it may cost him everything.
Centuries blur into one endless night. Empires rise and fall around him as he becomes a whispered horror, feeding to survive, forgetting what it once meant to feel human. Then, nearly two thousand years later, he dreams-something he has not done in ages. In those dreams appears a young woman in candlelight, her face soft yet unafraid. Elizabeth von Weissenburg, a noblewoman in 1840s Germany, begins to see him too: a crimson-eyed figure standing at the edge of her sleep, watching, never touching, yet always there. Night after night, year after year, their strange connection deepens-his torment easing in her presence, her curiosity slowly eclipsing fear.
Determined to reach her, he weaves himself into her world by befriending her older brother, a man drawn to his mystery and quiet intensity. Invited at last to their estate, he crosses the threshold with careful restraint, every instinct warring within him. The moment Elizabeth sees him in waking life, recognition strikes like lightning-the man from her dreams, now standing in her home, very real, and far more dangerous than she ever imagined.