When her sister's soon-to-be ex-husband turns up missing, librarian (and wannabe P.I.) Carrie Holiday is on the case. Then she uncovers her brother-in-law's business dealings with Luke, her sexy-in-a-creepy-way neighbor. Hoping to get a little closer to Mr.Hot-n-Spooky, Carrie recruits him to help solve the mystery behind the disappearance. Maybe she's finally found a way to get the guy to notice she's alive.

What Carrie doesn't realize is that Luke isn't. Alive, that is. The two-hundred-year-old vampire has been content lusting after Carrie from afar, but now that she's working with him night after night, he can't keep his hands to himself. Luke figures he has it made—as long as Carrie doesn't find out the truth about him.

It's too bad about those bags of blood in his refrigerator... ( )