I’ve always been a sucker for a guy with muscles and a handsome face. If that makes me sound shallow, maybe I am. I’ve never had a real relationship, unless you consider the guys in my Marine Corps Recon unit. I had a great relationship with those guys. Yeah, yeah, I know we’re splitting hairs. These days, long after my retirement from active duty, the only kind of relationships I really do now are with fictional characters.

I love to read, and lately, I’ve been frequenting the pages of my favorite blog, Bestreads, to escape my real-life job, one I’m not very well suited for. One reviewer on there—Nightcrawler—absolutely slays me. He always makes me laugh, steering me clear of some of the worst trash out there when I’m not trying to earn money as a bounty hunter. Maybe someday the right man will come along, and he won’t simply be a book boyfriend.

Someday.

Lately, I can’t get intrigued by any of the guys I’ve met in bars. Hookups are becoming less and less interesting for me. I’m a reader and of late, I’m also a half decent reviewer. I write exclusively for a blog called Bestreads, working under the name of Nightcrawler and I’m not ashamed to admit, I try to make them funny. In my line of work as a recovery agent for a big insurance company, I’m finding my off hours much more pleasurable.

I think about my next review and my next blog post all the time. Whenever I put up a funny two-star review, I dream of the guy who might be at home reading it, but pretty sure the kind of man who reads me, is probably living in his mother’s basement. Still, I’m a romantic at heart. Someday I might just run into him in one of my stories.

Someday.

Aristotle Brown and his partner at work and in life, Eoghan Sapphire, love working together in the agency they call home. The I.S.R. (Interspecies Response) branch of the U.S. Marshals Service is an exciting place to work…if you don't mind running into the occasional toe-sucking vampire, adorable little multi-eyed alien, or mountain cave-dwelling dragons. Then again, some of their most rewarding work has centered around forming bonds with various shifter populations who thrive along the vast highways and byways of California. They spend a lot of time on the road but being together makes it all worthwhile.

For months now, they've been trying to assist a vampire fugitive get back home to his clan…and his throne. King John Townsend has been waiting patiently, knowing every day that goes by brings his people more misery under their new, illegitimate king, Tillis Bradshaw. Bradshaw is an evil vampire whose ruthlessness and greed drive all his decision making. This of course includes an ever-expanding network of nationwide drug trafficking as well as the takeover of synthetic blood factories vampires need to survive. Not to mention the fact that he's starving his own people.

Eoghan and Ari have known for a while now that someone at the Agency is in bed with Bradshaw and worse than that, there's a mole in the L.A. office. They've had to work in secret with the assistance of their boss, Deputy Chief Arizona Priest. When they get home from what promises to be their last venture outside of California to begin planning the ousting of Bradshaw and his evil minions, neither man is prepared for the disappearance of their boss or the reappearance of an evil nemesis.

Join Ari and Eoghan with all their friends and allies in their final adventure as they face off with an evil neither man could've imagined.