At the turn of the eighteenth century, an almost-fourteen-year-old girl is attacked and exposed to vampyric blood. Tragically, the young man she loved has been killed and her own family is plagued by accidents until her father blames her and banishes her from her home in disgrace. Majken discovers her body is changing and she must now drink blood to survive. Alone, she adapts and makes her way to the coast and learns to survive in a tavern. Yet in a northern seaport town, the man who made her vampyric has spotted her again - and believes he must utterly destroy her to ensure his own safety. A man she remembers as a Beast.