There's only one sin in the vampire world. You don't kill your blood maker. But Annalice wasn't thinking about the long term consequences when she ran her maker, Asa, through with a stake. She was just trying to survive and get back to her family. And who could blame her? A week before she had been a level-headed working mom trying to survive the busy hours of a medical practice. Now she was battling for survival in a world that she knew nothing about. Distracted by an unending hunger that she can't control and struggling to outwit a renegade detective bent on exposing her darkest secret, Annalice loses the one person that matters, her daughter. When she's found by her maker's estranged brother, Levi, her situation goes from bad to worse. She's got to stand trial for Asa's final death and Levi's the only judge. Can she convince him to let her live? And even if Levi doesn't kill her, there's always the Detective.