St. Louis was a damned city to begin with...and now it's a city full of the damned. For Izzy Ciampi, it's home. One focused on navigating the landscape of professional academia, balancing the personalities of her found family, the infamous Campi di Fragole mob, and avoiding the ever looming threat of vampires in the shadows. That is until The Society comes lurking into town and hunting down one thing: her. As she gets pulled deeper into the trenches of their sudden appearance, she starts to question her reality and worse, who to trust in this city of deceitful souls. Noah Broussard is running from his past while trying to maintain the slipping grip on his morality. Entranced by a fellow researcher with a proclivity for danger, his ability to choose survival above all else falters. When he starts to find himself in the same scenarios that pushed him to escape to St. Louis in the first place, he must decide to either protect the only place that has ever felt like home or run like he always has before.