Hanzi has been a vampire so long he has forgotten what it is to be human. But the curse which made him a vampire also promised him a bride. His time has come and the darkest of all vampires intends to collect what is rightfully his. Only the American woman fate has selected for him isn’t at all what he expected. Tattooed, pissed, and not at all interested in being any Vampire’s bride, Adrienne intends to make her fated coupling as difficult on Hanzi as possible. The Vampire who shows up to collect her isn’t at all what she expected and suddenly she can’t help but think she might be the perfect person to warm his soul and heat his bed. Can their newly formed, tentative joining survive the darkness stalking them both?