In the second installment in her supernatural Taker trilogy, Alma Katsu, author of the highly acclaimed The Hunger, takes you on a breathtaking 200-year journey through the landscaping of the heart.

Lanore McIlvrae is the kind of woman who will do anything for love. Including imprisoning the man who loves her behind a wall of brick and stone.

She had no choice but to entomb Adair, her nemesis, to save lots of Jonathan, the boy she was raised with within a remote Maine town in the early 1800s and the man she about The Reckoning thought she would be with forever. But Adair had other plans on her behalf. He utilized his inexplicable, otherworldly powers to provide her eternal lifestyle, but Lanore discovered too past due that there was a price for this gift: to spend eternity with him. And even though he is attractive and wonderful, behind Adair’s seductive façade may be the stuff of nightmares. He’s a monster in the flesh, and he desires Lanore to like him for most of time.

Now, two hundred years after imprisoning Adair, Lanore is wanting to atone on her behalf sins. She has distributed the treasures she’s gathered over her many lifetimes in order to purge her past and clear just how for another with her new lover, Luke Findley. But, while viewing these items at an display in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Lanore abruptly appreciates that the thing she’s been dreading for just two hundred years provides swept up to her: Adair has escaped from his prison. He’s free of charge…and he will come looking on her behalf. And she has no idea how she’ll save herself.

With the stunningly imaginative storytelling and rich characterizations that fascinated readers worldwide and produced The Taker a singular and memorable literary debut and a global sensation, Alma Katsu once again delivers “a powerful evocation from the dark side of intimate love” (Publishers Weekly).