Charissa, the 200-year-old vampire you just read about, now lives and works in present-day, Old Town Chicago, only blocks away from the parish of Father Christopher, a dutiful Catholic priest whose only real concern is the spiritual welfare of his community. That is, until the two meet - and are never the same again.
A 'chance' meeting brings the Man of God and the Mistress of the Night into a strangely symbiotic relationship - once she feeds upon him - something she initially tried hard to resist. Soon, they are sensing one another's patterns in odd daydream interludes, building towards a newfound connection neither of them can deny.
Charissa's cannibalistic vampire origins come into the picture when her maker, a cannibal shaman of the Caribbean, throws out his own tangled web in an attempt to re-connect with her after over a century of silence between them.
Christopher and Charissa find themselves, plus her friend Ariyah and her beau Joe, in the middle of a cross-continental nightmare leading them into the still cannibal-infested islands of the West Indies...
