When the Perfect Vampire Wife Dies They All Fall

The Clan Healer gives Isolde a death sentence: without the vial of Progenitor's Blood, the Blood Blight will turn her to dust within seventy-two hours. But her husband Miles, the new Duke, hands the only cure to Vivienne, the fledgling Isolde once turned, insisting the girl's rejection pain matters more. Isolde says nothing as the dark red liquid slides down another woman's throat.

In her final days she signs away everything: the clan's territories, its blood banks, the Elder Council, even the Progenitor's Ring, all to Vivienne. Her adopted daughter Lily, frozen forever at eight, screams that Vivienne is her real mother and that Isolde is the witch who made them monsters. Isolde agrees, softly, and keeps playing the perfect, submissive wife.

Yet she has swallowed poison daily just to stand, and she has made arrangements for what follows her death, certain the truth will surface once her body crumbles.