Book 3 in the dArgent Honor series. Lust is in the air in sultry New Orleans, where Alina dArgent is celebrating the marriage of her cousin and the daughter of widowed businessman Sam Quill. Sam falls quickly under Alinas vampire spell, and but for Alina, Sams the dominant lover of her fantasies. Yet there seems to be no future for them beyond this short sexual interlude, for they come from worlds too different to be bridged. An evil vampire is determined to destroy Alina. Hes already wreaked havoc on her clan, and she cant shirk her responsibilities in a lovers arms, however tempting this may be. Sam is an Alpha male, uninterested in playing consort to a vampire queen, even if he were willing to be turned, which he is not. When her enemy attacks Alina, Sam steps in to save her at the cost of his own life. What he wants doesnt matter now. Alina must change him or he will die. Angry at first, Sam quickly accepts his new existence-as well as Alinas eternal surrender-and embraces a shadow life with his vampire queen. Note: Story contains scenes of same-gender and group sex