Have you ever had the feeling that you've lived another life? Been somewhere that has felt totally familiar, even though you've never been there before, or felt that you know someone well, even though you are meeting them for the first time? It happens.

In 2073, on the remote and secretive island of Blessed, where rumors say no one ages and no children are born, a visiting journalist, Eric Seven, and a young local woman named Merle are ritually slain. Their deaths echo a moment ten centuries before, when, in the dark of the moon, a king was slain, tragically torn from his queen. Their souls search to be reunited, and as mother and son, artist and child, forbidden lovers, and victims of a vampire, they come close to finding what they've lost.

This novel, comprising seven parts, each influenced by a moon - the flower moon, the harvest moon, the hunter's moon, the blood moon - tells the story of Eric and Merle, whose souls have been searching for each other since their untimely parting. Beautifully imagined, intricately and cleverly structured, this is a heart-wrenching and breathtaking love story with the hallmark Sedgwick gothic touches of atmosphere, blood-spilling, and sacrifice.