Intro. Lucian D'Arvel was born in seventeenth-century France, the son of a declining nobility. From a young age he showed a disturbing magnetism: his gaze was a weapon, his smile a sweet poison that attracted as much as it hurt. At the age of twenty-two he was chosen by a vampire named Selene, who made him immortal not out of compassion, but out of intuition: she saw in him a spirit destined for eternity. From then on, Lucian became a figure impossible to ignore, a being who learned to transform bloodlust into art and seduction into a ritual.
For centuries, he cultivated the mastery of words, desire and the emotions of others. He preferred to conquer his prey rather than hunt them, to turn surrender into a game and fear into fascination. He traveled between palaces, ruins and modern cities, always impeccable, always enigmatic. Where other vampires were shadows that hid, he became a myth: a lover who could make you tremble with a single caress.