In 1908 Manhattan, Evelyn Reuter struggles to fit into the life that she's inherited from her late father - until she meets Margot, a mysterious and eccentric shopkeeper, at the center of his unfinished business.
As the two grow closer, Eve is faced with a tempting distraction from all her grief and uncertainty, and a new question is raised by Margot's own dark, vampiric secret:
What sort of person falls in love with a monster?