Will receives the worst news a vampire can get—he's on "the hit list", a deadly inclusion into the group of undeads marked for assassination. The Vampire's Little Black Book series returns to the present as Will starts to fall for a lovely human coworker, Dr. Caroline. The mysterious immortal attacker has returned to the hospital just as a young expectant mother is diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. Can Will help Casey, the pregnant patient? Can he continue to run from his past just as a real romance develops with Caroline? Or will Anna, a mercenary assassin herself, be able to help him escape?