A vampire succubus created during the Black Plague, Godfrey works as a Boston paramedic and battles loneliness and exhaustion as he fights to keep humanity safe from twin COVID and opioid epidemics. He has always pursued that which provides him hope--medicine, the cello... love. But yielding to his feelings for his work partner, Trevor, would conflict with Godfrey's complicated moral code. Instead he feeds on sexual energy when he must and investigates a drug ring in his spare time. But even a vampire can't ignore his feelings forever.