Темной ночью в больницу маленького городка Сент-Эндрю привозят молодую женщину по имени Ланор. Полицейские, доставившие ее сюда, говорят, что она только что убила в лесу мужчину. Оставив арестованную на попечение доктора Люка Финдли – вся ее одежда в крови, возможно, она ранена, – полиция возвращается на место преступления. Ланор тем временем умоляет Люка отпустить ее, ибо она ни в чем не виновна, и то, что она совершила, не было убийством. А затем рассказывает врачу совершенно невероятную историю своей жизни – историю женщины, которая точно знает, что вечная любовь все-таки существует. И вечная ненависть. И вечная боль. Потому что та, кто носит эти чувства в своем сердце – сама Ланор, – тоже вечна…

We had a tangled history, Adair and I. He had been my lover and my teacher, master to my slave. We had literally been prisoners to one another. Somewhere along the way he fell in love with me, but I was too afraid to love him in return. Afraid of his unexplainable powers, and his furious temper. Afraid of what I knew he was capable of and what even he himself didn't know he could do. I ran away to follow a safer path with a man I could understand. I always knew, however, that my path would one day lead back to Adair... This is the stunning conflusion to Alma Katsu's gripping supernatural trilogy that began with The Taker.

I turned to Luke and reached for him. My blood felt as though it had seized up in my veins. Lanny, what is it? Luke asked. I clutched his lapel desperately It's Adair. He's free. For 200 years she's been hiding He gave her immortality. She tried to destroy him. Now he is searching for her. They must not meet. Or there will be a Reckoning.

This is an immortal love story. Have you ever loved someone so much that you'd do anything for them? When Dr Luke Findley turns up to his hospital shift in the small town of St Andrews, Maine, he's expecting just another evening of minor injuries and domestic disputes. But instead, Lanore McIlvrae walks into his life — and changes it forever. For Lanny is a woman with a past... Lanny McIlvrae is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. Hers is a story of love and betrayal that defies time and transcends mortality — but this tale cannot end until Lanny's demons are finally put to rest. Her two hundred years on this earth have seen her seduced by both decadence and brutality — yet through it all she has only ever had one true love in her life. Until now. An unforgettable novel about the power of unrequited love to elevate and sustain, but also to blind and ultimately destroy, The Taker is an immortal love story on an epic scale...