First in The Huntress Trilogy featuring vampire Veronica Melbourne. Veronica is an unusual vampire. She's a huntress who dedicates herself to ridding the California coast of rogue, evil, and inhumane vampires and other supernaturals. However, she also hunts humans-the evil ones, anyway. Rand is a vampire hunter who needs to avoid Samantha Moon for a while after shooting her in the shoulder with a silver bolt-Sam banished him from California...