You came to Blackthorn Hall to restore a portrait. You did not expect the woman in it to have your face. Modern art restoration specialist Rose Winston has always dreamed of a place she has never been: black stone, candlelit halls, blood on white silk, and a man’s voice begging her not to leave him. When she is hired to restore the private Veyr collection at an isolated gothic estate in the Carpathian mountains, she arrives with Cassian Thorn, her protective boyfriend, who knows far more about the house than he admits. Then Rose finds the portrait. It is centuries old. It looks exactly like her. And the owner of Blackthorn Hall, Nikolai Veyr, looks at her like he has been waiting three hundred years to breathe again. Nikolai is elegant, immortal, and haunted by the woman he loved and watched die in his arms. Cassian is a hunter sworn to keep Rose away from him, even if protecting her means lying to her. One man remembers the soul she used to be. One loves the woman she is now. But Rose is not a memory. She is not a prize. And as Blackthorn Hall begins waking around her, she must uncover why her soul keeps returning before the blood that remembers her decides her fate for her.