‘You want to consume me. You want to rip apart the very seams of me...’

Barely into her fifth year, Persis’s life is altered forever when she stumbles upon two very strange sights in the middle of the night—the hacked-up bodies of her parents and the rageful young woman who killed them.

Witness to the murder and a liability as an untrained juvenile vampire, the woman abducts Persis, sequestering her away to a tower by the sea where she grows roses alongside her more sinister profession.

Fifteen years pass in that tower, with no more interaction from her captor beyond the single rose she receives each birthday, and with only Ada for company—her food source, occasional lover, and only friend.

But then, on her twentieth birthday, amid a tempestuous storm and a ripening moon, the Dark Rose returns to reclaim her captive…