Asha of Lowborn Blood marries into the House of Hellsburg to fulfill her family’s prophecy. On the eve of her wedding, she catches her fiancé Edmund cheating with Selena in their bridal chamber. Beaten by Thrall and seared by sun drills, she awakens the Blood of Caine, the bloodline of the vampire Antediluvian Cain, amid her agony. A blood moon omen shakes the entire vampire realm. Damian, a princeling of Haron, comes to propose to her. Plagued by jealousy, Edmund schemes against her time and again. Asha grows stronger by absorbing pure vampire blood through life-or-death duels. She slays Selena, Thrall, and Edmund one after another, then defeats the Antediluvian of Hellsburg. Merged with Edmund’s sage bloodline, the Antediluvian sacrifices his entire clan to forge a blood armor. Drawing on the sunlight power within the Blood of Caine, Asha incinerates him utterly. In the end, she shatters Edmund’s wedding ring, refuses to become anyone’s vassal, and walks toward a brand-new world that belongs only to her, facing the rising sun.