Aurora Whitmore has spent her entire life believing she is human.Sheltered by her strict parents, she knows almost nothing about the world beyond the carefully controlled life they’ve given her. But one Halloween night, a mysterious stranger appears and asks a question that changes everything:“Where did you get that mark?”His name is Lucien Blackthorn, and he isn’t human.Lucien is a powerful vampire from Noctharis, a hidden kingdom ruled by an ancient royal bloodline. He’s been sent to the human world to find the missing Vampire Queen before a dangerous Vampire Lord finds her first.Then Aurora’s hidden power begins to awaken.Lucien soon suspects that the innocent university student he can’t seem to stay away from may be the Queen he’s been searching for.But Aurora doesn’t know who she really is—and Lucien can’t tell her the truth without putting her in even greater danger.As secrets unravel and danger closes in, their growing attraction becomes impossible to ignore. Aurora must decide whether she can trust the vampire who has been hiding the truth from her, while Lucien must choose between completing his mission and protecting the woman who has slowly become more important than the throne he never wanted.Because Aurora isn’t just human.She is the lost Queen of Noctharis.And when her crown awakens, the entire vampire kingdom will come looking for her.