When a foreign child is abandoned by her family to die in Isolann's wolf-ridden forests, she is taken to live under Azrar's protection as his ward. The strange ability that the girl possesses, a power that so terrified her own people, could be the only hope for Azrar's survival. For the Prince is not human but the last warlord of the Dark Kind, a race of beautiful but deadly creatures that have preyed on Mankind since before recorded history. A truly original vampire story with no maidens swooning over dark brooding strangers, angst-ridden sparkling teenage vamps, coffins or bats ! A fast moving adventure spanning three turbulent decades of the twentieth century.