Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

Cassandra Wynstrom auditions for a play at the Queen's Theatre that depicts the last war between the Humans and Empians, thus between Light and Dark.
When she is pursued by the last Empian named Lharkin, she learns he has created vampires out of desperation; to continue his bloodline. When she sees visions of an ancient temple that defy the story told in the play, she is confronted with choices:. she either has to pick her destiny or her heart...as she is falling for the one whom she is enemies with.

A vampire only known as Audray finds her new life as Lharkin's follower troubling; she must help the Empian find a way to convince Cassandra to join them before the human realizes who she really is. When Audray seeks comfort in the arms of the Queen's son, she struggles with the inevitable: that she must eventually tell him what she is.

Mourning Grey is the beginning of a saga that explores the lives living under the Guardians of Light and Dark, and that some things exist in the grey, such as love.