Vampire Dante Gabriel is starving. What he craves is usually red gold—human blood. After being kept captive like a blood slave to a female vampire for years, he has finally escaped. Unchained at last, he follows his nose towards the nearest bloodstream lender to sate his hunger.

ER nurse Erin Hamilton expects yet another busy night time shift…until she sees a gorgeous stranger vandalizing a healthcare facility blood bank. Though her logic tells her to turn him in, she’s pulled by more powerful and unfamiliar emotions to protect the man who appears oddly infatuated with her fragrance. Chemistry sizzles between them, but Dante, suffering from nightmares of his time in captivity, concerns he gained’t have the ability to control himself…specifically when he discovers a magic formula she doesn’t even understand she’s hiding.