As the newest member of the coterie, Mike's Embrace may have been a mistake. Moving from a less than innocent teenager of fifteen or so, to the ghoul of an implacable elder, to the progeny of Gretchen just after he was shot and killed, Mike has undergone trauma to rival any of the Wayfarers.

Although the neonate puts up a strong front, none of them can be certain what else the elder Rowena might have done to him that he may not even be aware of...until a stake's planted in someone's heart. Yara should know this well, having been attacked by him once already.

Child vampires have a notorious reputation even without this history weighing Mike down. His worst enemies may be, in fact, his own coterie...