(IN THE PROCESS OF BEING EDITED) "I would like to offer you a vacancy. A job, as my assistant of sorts." -*- Clarice Blakely (also known as Clara) loves her job as a detective's assistant for the mysterious (and attractive) Dmitri Restetov. But there is one catch; her boss is a Vampire. The two get on well, but can a vampire and a human really live and work together, before something goes wrong?

Being a freelance detective isn't easy. Especially for a woman. But Janice Cooper has made a name for herself ever since the murder of the rich French baron case she solved the year before. But as fall shakes the leaves from the trees, chilling murders begin to take place all over New York City. Bodies of young girls are found with their eyes gouged out and their necks drained dry, leaving nothing but a trail of blood on their cheeks. As the citizens of New York City become more restless, Janice is called on the case by the desperate chief of police to solve the murders that quickly become known as "Maidens of Sorrow." But Janice will end up venturing into a world further from normalcy and deeper into the arms of insanity.