Vampire Melissa Price's heart has hardened to an empty shell of remembered love. Lifetimes of experience and self-preservation have taught her that relationships serve only two purposes-sustenance and superficial companionship. Her work as a veterinarian gives purpose to her solitary life, but three hundred years of loneliness catches up with her when she responds to an emergency call and meets the least likely man to bring down the wall of her emotionless existence.Jaxon Granger is part-owner of his family's thoroughbred racehorse boarding and layover facility. His world revolves around his business, family, and a penchant toward hedonism. Horses are his life and womanizing bachelorhood is his religion. He boasts that there isn't a woman alive who can make him a one-woman man.That is, until he falls for a woman who isn't alive-in the strictest sense of the word.***Novella-length - approximately 145 pages
