Loving a vampire comes easy for Jayne Peters. Working for that same vampire is more difficult, but she finds that teasing and treating him with sex gets the work accomplished faster. Problem is, she is so in love and so attuned that her body sometimes betrays her. Donovan loves Jayne as he has loved no other woman for 500 years, including Charlotte, Jayne's great-grandmother. After a sex-filled helicopter flight to Cherokee, North Carolina, Donovan proposes, before Jayne collapse with another migraine. His friend Sebastian is a doctor who determines that the pain is coming from an inoperable brain aneurysm. This leaves Jayne with a life changing choice, death or life as a vampire.