He was once called Lancelot King Arthur's greatest knight. Now he is a vampire. And at the Dawn of the New Millennium, Lord Richard still stalks, still fights . . . still kills. A desperate plea for help calls him to the rescue of a woman he had loved and lost. Reality and dream merge in a macabre dance of death as Richard seeks to save fragile human lives he has sworn a blood-oath to protect. But the price that the Dark Fates demand of him is very high. For over a thousand years he's served them well, yet now they want all he has left: his battered and tarnished soul. . . .