Lucia Delacroix was born into wealth, legacy, and lies. Groomed to marry power and smile through silence, her life was a gilded cage with a diamond collar — and a wedding ring forged in cruelty.

On the night of her engagement, everything changes.

Her best friend — the only person who’s ever seen the real Lucia — lures her brother away under the pretence of reconciliation. But justice has already been bought… and the contract is signed.

Azrael is no ordinary assassin. Shaped by an ancient cult to carry out divine judgment, he now stalks the modern world as a merciless, mythic killer — and a vampire.

When he tears out Leopold’s throat, Lucia doesn’t scream.

She watches. And she whispers: “It should have been me.”

Azrael sees something in her — not innocence, but rage. Not weakness, but purpose.

He doesn’t offer her salvation. He offers her a choice.

And when Lucia finally takes his hand, she is reborn in blood and fire.

No longer bound by name or ring, Lucia becomes something else.

A creature of vengeance. A shadow in silk. A predator in pearls.

Together, she and Azrael hunt the monsters no court will punish — and leave none alive.