Introduction: A talented beauty... A tormented soul... A tortured love... He must see her again. Her resemblance to his long-ago love and her beauty lures him to Leanne, a singer in the cast of "The Phantom of the Opera". Jason Blackthorne pretends to be a cop when, in truth, he must live forever in the shadows as he seeks to satisfy his unholy thirst for blood. Unable to stay away after being alone for three hundred years, he approaches Leanne for an autograph one evening and begins an affair he never meant to allow. When Leanne declares her love for the handsome man she believes him to be, Jason is forced to make life-altering decisions. Will he hold back his demons and spare her from his hunger? Or will her love end the "Masquerade" and free them both?...