I am called Chapel . . . For nearly six centuries I have roamed the night， a mortal man no longer. Would that I could undo the past -- when I entered the sanctuary of the Knights Templar to wrest from them the Holy Grail， only to discover the chalice I raised to my lips was not the sacred relic but a hellish cup of damnation. Now I shun the day and all things human， driven by an ungodly thirst. And yet... Never have I known a maiden the like of Prudence Ryland， whose beauty and spirit awaken a heart I feared long cold and dead. But her young life is slipping away， and she also seeks the deliverance of the Grail -- unaware that the cost of her search could be her soul. I must help Prudence， for in six hundred years， no other woman has stirred my passions so. But dare I tender to my beloved that which she most desires -- the sensuous "gift" of forever that is both rapture and a curse: my immortal kiss?