First Blood

This collection brings together four original tales of vampires and the people who get tangled up with them. Susan Sizemore revisits the world of her Laws of the Blood novels, following a vampire enforcer whose path crosses that of a werewolf. Erin McCarthy sends Sasha Checkikov out of Las Vegas, with its glitter and deadly slayers, and into New Orleans, where a brooding vampire with a troubled past comes to her rescue. Chris Marie Green's contribution is set in the Vampire Babylon world and centers on twin female vampires whose bond is strained when one of them develops feelings for a human she is meant to feed on. In the final story, Meljean Brook's vampire Annie Gallagher needs assistance to rescue a young girl, and the help arrives in the form of an FBI agent she once loved and walked away from when she was turned.