They call it a curse, but it's been my only companion through the centuries. Its hunger is my hunger; its loneliness, my shadow. I am Arabella, once a woman of flesh and dreams, now a creature lurking in the margins of moonlight and myth. I didn’t choose this half-life, this craving for hearts that beat with the dark rhythm of sin. Each new moon, I feed the curse, and it grants me another month of tortured existence.

Eldritch was supposed to be another stop on my endless journey, a place teeming with shadows to hide my sins. But then he came, Gabriel, with eyes that saw through the veil of my allure. For the first time in nearly three hundred years, someone looked at me and saw more than the curse. He saw...me.

As the final grains of my centuries old hourglass slip away, I find myself yearning for something impossible—his love, unforced and real. But Gabriel is a man of integrity, not easily swayed by shadows or lies. How can I bare my truth, when truth itself could be my undoing?

They say love conquers all. But with time against me, and a heart that has never known true love, will it be enough to break the chains of eternity?