Synopsis: His first love. His only love. His undying love... When he died, Jonathan Barrett was buried. But it was not his fate to stay in the freshly turned earth - the legacy of a new vampire bloodline pulled him from that early grave. Is his strange destiny a miracle, or a curse? Only one unearthly soul knows... and Nora Jones has disappeared. Jonathan's quest to find her draws him back into the strange fold of his family, where a malevolent plot against them is taking shape. But his enemies will soon discover that it is not easy to kill a Barrett - especially one that is already dead ... (from the back cover of the Ace Books first edition)