"Vampire Henry Fitzroy woke to the twilight--and the discovery that a ghost had invaded his inner sanctum. This was the start of a dangerous nightly game. Henry was allowed to ask one question of his mysterious visitor. If the answer was no, someone--innocent and unsuspecting--would die. It soon became clear that what this wraith--and the others who eventually joined it--wanted was revenge on those responsible for killing them. Henry could not find...

Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto's homicide detail, now a private investigator, personally witnessed the first attack by a force of a dark magic that would soon wreak its reigh of terror on the unsuspecting city. As death followed unspeakable death, Vicki became more and more deeply enmeshed in an investigation which would see her renewing her stormy relationship with her former partner on the squad, homicide detective Mike Celluci. Yet she would...

Fearing for his sanity, 450-year-old vampire Henry Fitzroy calls upon his sometime-lover and comrade, ex-cop Vicki Nelson, whose former partner is in the middle of a murder investigation involving a museum mummy.

All of the best-selling author's short stories about Vicki Nelson, a homicide cop turned P.I., her former partner Mike Celluci, and vampire Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of Henry VIII who makes his living writing romance novels, are collected in one volume.