In Seasons Two and Three of the TV series Shades, police officer Kate Gonzales and her vampire friend, Jonathan van Dijk have been consolidating their relationship and occasionally working together, trying to keep their growing friendship under Rufus Henri's voudou radar. In this novella it is Season Four of the show, and everything is about to change for the characters. Kate is now on a temporary reassignment to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and a case she is working has all the hallmarks of a vampire attack. She enlists Jonathan van Dijk's help and he discovers his worst fears are...

Several years have passed and Shades is now about to start its fifth and final season on TV. Alex Keating has spent this time learning all he can about the vampires of Lilith's family and is about to make a decision that will change his life forever. As the characters in the show have risen to the challenges presented to them, so has Alex, but if he thought everything would settle if he chose to be like Lilith, nothing could be further from the truth. Staying alive is proving to be the biggest challenge of all. In the TV series, Jonathan and Kate are going through similar changes in their...