Ash Mourne never seems able to stay away from the things that are bad for her: sex, booze, drugs, blood...Lucien.

Her days are spent trying to help others heal through their trauma and at night she tries to pretend she doesn't have any herself. She drinks herself into oblivion each night, swearing not to do it the next day when she wakes up full of regrets but always inevitably repeats the process. She tells herself as long as she can keep doing her job, everything will be alright despite her growing concern about the being inhabiting her body and the feeling that something horrible is about to happen...