The Nightman's Odyssey

French nobleman Damien LaCroix seeks to cheat Death, but eternity as a vampire may prove to be the harder choice.

A plague is killing Damien's people. As he confronts his own mortality, he receives a dire message from his betrothed. The sickness has overtaken her family, and she fears it will take her next. The thought of losing her is unbearable. He seeks out a vampire to turn him so that he can save Antoinette.

But when Antoinette betrays him with a close friend, she shatters his hopes of eternity together. He vows never to turn another and leaves France with his ancestral home burning in the distance. He travels across Europe, fighting as a mercenary for a time, and gets caught up in the French Revolution.

When he travels to the New World, he finds himself smitten again by a human woman, the kind he'd vowed to avoid. When Kate is accused of murder and likely to be hanged for her crimes, Damien faces a dire choice.