Elena Vance, a noble lady, is used by her father Arthur as a bargaining chip to be sent to the brutal vampire Duke Alistair for the Embrace ritual. On the eve of the wedding, she sees through all betrayals from her family and devises an elaborate revenge plan. At a family dinner, she poisons Arthur with silver grass toxin and frames her illegitimate half-sister Chloe. She also incapacitates the biased Dowager Baroness.