It began with a phone call from Queen's University Life Science Department to tell private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother had died. But what started as an all-too-normal personal tragedy soon becomes the most terrifying case of Vicki's career. Vampire Henry Fitzroy and homocide detective Mike Celluci help Vicki locate her mother's body, which has mysteriously disappeared.

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.