
The Blood Debt Auction. At the age of twenty-six, hunter Evelyn infiltrates the engagement auction at Blood Moon Manor under the alias of appraiser Ivy, intending to steal the list of vampire arms buyers before the ceremony. At the climax of the cocktail party, her fiancé Julian publicly exposes her identity as a hunter, stabs her through the heart with a knife, and throws her into the manor's dungeon to await execution at sunrise. On the verge of death, the personality of the vampire ancestor, who has been sealed for three hundred years, awakens under the stimulation of silverware. She must retrieve the list of three hundred hunters within seventy-two hours and walk into the Marcus Auction House building that manipulates global blood pact transactions—facing unknown enemies, and also facing the next version of herself.