Dragomir Saint is amassing an empire controlling black market trade routes through the Midwest, claiming his power with a singular brutality that makes him and his brothers a rising force to be reckoned with. When a hit sends him to the morgue, he finds he has a weakness after all, and it's not the GSW to the back of the head. It's the morgue attendant, one Cordelia Bloom. When he discovers she's being stalked by a killer the papers have dubbed "The American Ripper" he's determined to bring her the monster's head. But when the autumn moon is full, a fiend who is dark of heart may become something more—something Dragomir never anticipated. He'll risk his kingdom, his brothers and his very life to save the one woman who reminds him of what it is to be human.