There’s a new vampire in town. They call her the Mistress, and anyone who gets in her way mysteriously disappears or becomes a dried husk completely drained of blood—or exsanguinated, as the Denbrook Medical Examiner likes to say.

The mobs and crime syndicates of Denbrook are under assault and ace reporter Sasha Benbow St. Cloud is doing her best to unravel it all.

In her investigations she finds herself allied with a Russian model on the run from the mob, a stalker with a presidential name and a job at a less-than-presidential gentlemen’s club, and a handsome vampire hunter and his pet crow Fineous.