"Love passeth all understanding" or "Love passeth all knowledge, "I prefer the first translation. Having lived, died and been reanimated, my experience has proven the first. Settling in the luxury Brooklyn Heights' Federal Style manse, owned by my lover/maker, my existence took on a whole new form." Victor's five-minute mother-in-law murdered her son, Victor's lover, husband, Jason, her granddaughter, and a wedding guest, wounded her whole family. Augustus Beyer, the Duo's incredibly wealthy, playmate, saves Victor through transforming him into a 'Child Of the Gift.' Victor's and Augi's human/ vampire duality allows them to be malevolent guardians to Victor's human families. Jeremy Santos, Jason's and now Victor's nephew, becomes the center of their eternal lives as a mysterious illness imbues the fourteen-year-old with unusual powers. Jealousy, conflict, human frailties, love, family and secrecy inform their lives.