Katie Holmes is a caffeine addict. Between college, and taking care of her brother, it's acceptable. Though, it doesn't help that the cafe down the street is full of handsome baristas, including one William Cerak in particular who has a mysterious scar on his wrist. Synopses will be the death of my publishing career.

After choosing to live rather than succumb to her fate, Emily has to adjust to her new life as a creature of the night. Which is hard enough even without the sudden onset of nightmares and the overbearing guilt of causing the death of the vampire prince, Sebastian. During a trip to visit the late prince's grave, Emily and Vincent find it dug up and destroyed... with Sebastian's body missing.