About the book: year / He was turned for one purpose - to be an instrument of torture. Pain became the meaning of his existence. Whether it was his own or someone else's, only agony gave Max a sense of purpose. The centuries of torture with which he was tormented, the centuries of torment during which he tormented others, made this vampire a madman obsessed with pain. And Maximilian could not imagine any other existence, until one day, in the corridors of his own creator’s house, an ordinary person - a girl - tried to stab him with a silver dagger. Sensing the ideal victim for his amusements, Max's madness growled contentedly... Didn't anyone tell her that she should never tease Max like that? So, the game has just begun... In her life, Helen made only one mistake - she traded the quiet and peaceful existence of an exemplary granddaughter and an ardent Catholic for a dubious job with strange partners who knew her missing mother. That's what Helen thought before. Until she realized that her biggest mistake was her attempt to kill a vampire with wild, blazing scarlet eyes. Therefore, when Maximilian gave her a chance, she had to take advantage of it and run as far away from him as possible, so far away that he would never be able to find her. But, for some reason, both the heart, the body, and the soul treacherously long to stay…