Meet Sydney Sage: architecture student, intern at the prestigious Golden Lily Corporation, and socially awkward genius. Working at the Golden Lily works really well for her; everyone's all professional, all the time, leaving Sydney with little to no need to socialize. She's good at her job, after all, and that's what they're paying her to do.
Meet Adrian Ivashkov: vampire, art student (well...student implies studying and actually attending classes, so…), and life of the party. Party-Boy Extraordinaire has no qualms about using his trust fund, and boy, does he know how to spend it. When you have more money than God, who cares if you're irresponsible and are hardly ever sober?
As a matter of fact, Adrian doesn't care about much...until the day he sees Sydney sitting in a campus coffee shop. He's drawn in by her and immediately has to have her-no surprise there. What is surprising, though, is her answer: no. No girl had ever turned Adrian Ivashkov down, and he'd be damned if he let it go at that. Not to mention that the blonde haired beauty has him intrigued.
Sydney can't decide what's crazier: the fact that a guy-a beautiful, funny, charming guy, so out of her league-asked her out...or the fact that he didn't take no for an answer. The persistent upperclassman seems determined to tear down her walls and pull her right out of her cozy little shell-but at what price?
As passion begins to flare up between them and a bond starts to form, other things are trying to tear them apart. Even if the outside forces willing to sacrifice everything to keep them separate weren't in the picture, there's still the fact that, oh yeah, Adrian is kind of a blood-sucking-creature-of-the-night-the kind of thing stories are told about around campfires-and Sydney has absolutely no idea. What will she do when she finds out the truth? An even greater question: what happens when her relationship with Adrian brings about shocking abilities in Sydney that will change her forever?