From San Fransisco's Tenderloin to the Dismal Swamp of North Carolina, human trafficking, vampires, and conjure magic combine in this sexy, funny, spooky story about Raine Black, a struggling comic strip artist with a gift--her comics come true. Enter Joshua: Raine's secret childhood friend, an abolitionist, and a vampire. Possessed by a revenge demon his vampire religion can't contain, Joshua just wants to get Raine safe from the demon, and from the other vampires, so he can kill himself in peace before the demon takes him over. But Raine thinks she can draw Joshua a comic with a happy ending, if she just has a little more time. And the demon has an offer. It wants to strike a bargain...with Raine.
Joshua thinks it's his last day on earth, but Az keeps dropping hints to Raine that her drawings can save him. So, while Joshua visits old haunts, Ra...
The San Francisco vampires are meeting to discuss Lender's dispute with Joshua. Fiona is making sure that Joshua goes this time, and it looks like Ra...
Joshua's ex, Fiona, and the oldest of the SF vampires, comes over to talk vamp politics and to put Raine in her place, although Raine isn't quite what...
Joshua gets the truth out of Stephen--some of it, anyway--about Stephen's deal with Raine. Raine gets the truth out of Joshua--some of it, anyway--ab...
Raine runs, escaping from Az and the whole vampire mess. Time to regroup. Disguised by Linus (to throw off Delun), Raine heads home to the Tenderloi...
Joshua and Raine are surprised by Barbara, and then surprised by a bit of conjure left out for them to find by Az. Az is growing more powerful by the...
Raine meets Joshua's best friend, Stephen, only Stephen isn't so happy about it. Don't vampires have a 'don't kill each other's human friends' rule? ...