Fiona MacPhee is a woman with a mission--and a very dark secret. Sidekick to Joan Armstrong, a famous demon hunter, Fiona must scour Edinburgh for the answer to a cryptic prophecy before an ancient evil rends the veil between the worlds at Samhain. She can't afford any distractions. Especially not from Rory MacLaren. A handsome, charming rogue, Rory has also been a vampire for 260 years. When Rory catches Fiona in a deserted wynd after midnight, his offer of help could not be better--or more suspiciously--timed.

Though warned of the Tellurian slave's uncooperative nature, Guild Assassin Dzer-Jin Vonn is intrigued when the alluring redhead promises to obey him and be the best slave ever. Her prior owner misused her but did not quench her spirit; her tongue cuts with amusing precision. Abducted from Earth by aliens, ripped from life as she knows it, she gives her new master only the label "slave" to call her by. She's landed in a culture where violence is foreplay. Yet her sexy master stands apart from his peers; he shows compassion. When Dzer-Jin is challenged to slice her skin for public titillation,...