Forget everything you thought you knew about vampires. Abigail Johnson was born a slave. She died a slave. She was reborn a nightwalker, created by a dark man who possesses knowledge and secrets first whispered at the beginning of mankind. It will take all of her reborn life, from the years after the Civil War until the present day before Abigail learns the truth of who and what she is, and how that truth will affect the destiny of all mankind.