Armed with family legends and a blessed sword dating back to the first crusades, Hunter Blackfox leaves the reservation in Cherokee, North Carolina to replace a fallen member of Team Nightly and help protect the city of Savannah, Georgia. His life is about to change... When he first lays eyes on Sheila Maxson, he likens her to Aphrodite, Helen of Troy, and Jackie Onassis-sex, beauty, and class-all rolled into one, long, luscious package just for him. Sheila Maxson is a seasoned member of Team Nightly and a bloodline uccisore gifted with exceptional speed and agility on the battlefield. But she's battling more than the rising number of vampires. The horrific memories of an event that took place only days after 9/11 when she, her brother Michael, and their aging grandfather tried to protect first responders from frenzied vampires, as they searched for survivors at ground zero, are slowly chipping away at Sheila's emotional armor. With the added guilt of losing a friend and uccisore brother in battle, the short fuse of her control is burning fast. Each time she and Hunter are in the same vicinity, Sheila goes on the attack and Hunter has no option but to fight back. Until the night Chase and Rae's daughter is born and the vampire king breaches the hospital nursery. The bickering teammates must team up to protect the innocent newborn. Hunter must find a way to bring down the walls that Sheila has erected around herself in order to save not just Chase and Rae's baby, but the woman of his dreams as well. As word comes to them that Hunter's Sword is coveted by Gordon Charles, Vampire King, the entire team must find a way to keep it out of vampire clutches. Gordon Charles will do whatever he must to corrupt the powers of the sword and sway its magic to benefit his cause. To do that he must spill uccisore blood...Sheila's blood.