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It is 1842, and Y/N arrives in the quiet English village of Gardenia with a secret she has no intention of revealing. She is a vampire—clever, beautiful, manipulative, and dangerously good at getting exactly what she wants. Her newest target is Hideto Matsumoto, a Japanese nobleman who has traveled to England with his fiancée, June, to begin a new life and establish himself as an architect. Hideto knows nothing about the darkness surrounding Gardenia. He doesn't know that people have been disappearing, that whispers of a vampire have begun spreading through the village, or that the mysterious woman who has captured his attention is the very creature everyone should fear. Y/N approaches Hideto intending to use his affection for her to get what she wants, fully prepared to lie, flirt, and manipulate her way into his life. But Hideto's genuine kindness and growing devotion begin to complicate things. For the first time in centuries, Y/N finds herself developing feelings she never intended to have—and she refuses to let those feelings make her weak. With June standing between them, a growing trail of secrets threatening to expose Y/N, and Hideto slowly realizing that the woman he loves may not be who she claims to be, Gardenia becomes a dangerous game of love, deception, and survival.