The vampires are a dying race, their females sterile. When it's discovered that human females of Druid ancestry can be viable breeders...the harvest begins.
Rachel Collins is a young woman living in the frozen north of Alaska in a dead-end job with a circular life. She yearns for something more.
When murders begin taking place in the city where she lives, she and her girlfriend try to be more cautious, only to be caught in the middle of a dangerous situation in which an unlikely savior emerges.
"That one has a strong mind," Nathan said.
"Some of the cattle do," Cole said.
Cattle.
I started to back away, subtly getting Michelle's attention. We were almost to the car when Cole's head whipped around. "You will not leave."
Michelle began hollering again but the men walked away. The one who shook his head cast a final glance behind him. As we watched he massaged his temple, continuing to walk away.
They retraced their steps toward us and my heart sank. We could not outrun something we couldn't see move, something that crushed a man's face with one swipe, disintegrated an arm with a grip strong enough to pulverize bone. As they drew nearer, their fangs stood out of their mouth, barbed points ready to pierce our flesh.
Michelle latched on to my hand and I prepared myself for the worst.
"You cannot thirst."
"No, but the blonde one's fear is an aphrodisiac," Nathan said.
"Yes, but think on this Nathan: has she not already been degraded enough by the human scum we dispatched?" Cole said.
"Yes," Nathan ground out. "You speak true."
"Then scrub her and we take the female breeder."
Nathan approached Michelle and she started to wail, her screams broken only by her next breath.
The blonde was suddenly in front of her. Squeezing her throat lightly, he cut off her screaming and the sudden silence filled the parking area. The snow was falling softly around us, some of the flakes catching in my eyelashes. Nathan stared deeply into Michelle's eyes. Finally he moved away and she stood there, blank faced, in a zombie-like stupor.
"What did you do to her?" I whispered.
"Something we cannot do for you," Cole remarked...
