In a world remade by vampires and the demon beasts that serve them, humanity has learned to survive as prey and servants to their undead leaders. Cowering in the dark shadows of the great cities, they can only peer out at a world they cannot even imagine, baring their teeth at those lucky few who have managed to integrate themselves into the new culture the vampires have forged, earning the right to live in the new privileged cities.

But unknown to them, one of the very human's they consider so blessed peers down at them from the glass cage his master has trapped him in, yearning to return to simpler times before he was made a vampire's prized plaything.

Syan remembers a time when he was simply Simon, a young man whose greatest ambition was to find a place in a minor lord's home as a valet, perhaps eventually becoming a majordomo in his wilder fantasies. Nothing could have prepared him for the world he would find himself drawn in to.

As the pleasure slave of Janus, a member of the ruling rank of vampires, Syan has every luxury. Except freedom. Tormented by fading memories of his life as Simon, Syan longs to cast off the chains that bind him to Janus, even though he cannot deny the history and emotions that have bound the two of them together for eternity.

No longer human but neither vampire nor demon either, Syan finds himself torn between the world his master has forced him into and a world that only exists in his memories.