Grace, a young nurse from the Midwest, has the perfect life — a great boyfriend, amazing friends and a loyal dog. Yet, when her boyfriend proposes, instead of feeling happy, her world is thrown into turmoil. She begins to question the overwhelming expectations of young women from the Midwest: attend college, meet a guy, get married and start a family by the age of twenty-five. Grace has to decide what she really wants from life … does she have the courage to pave her own path?

Vic has a terrible vice. He drinks human blood. After a priest challenges him to swear it off for 40 days to gain redemption, he finds himself weakened significantly – and in the company of a nurse who is a particular temptation to him.