Five-thousand-year-old vampire Alisa Perne is trapped in the body of a newborn vampire and struggles with her thirst while a race of immortals--the Telar--are growing stronger and becoming a greater threat, but Alisa and her friends will require aid from the IIC, a mysterious organization known for having ulterior motives, in order to defeat the Telar. It's no dream. At last the truth of what happened during those hellish days has come back to her....