Somewhere off the beaten path in Scryville, Kentucky, there's a little-visited trail that leads to a realm of vampire politics, danger and maybe even death. Phoebe Stewart only agreed to marry Trevor Ricci to secure peace between their warring vampire clans. When her groom poisons her during the wedding ceremony, and her life expectancy falls from forever to a week, "till death do you part" takes on a whole new meaning. When she catches up with her new husband, she intends to stake and roast the traitorous, narcissistic weenie. Especially now she's met Hunter Knox, the bad boy alpha vampire she's been waiting for her whole death. Agent Hunter Knox works for the National Vampire Security Council. When a poison that can actually kill their species surfaces, he's dead set on finding and destroying it. But once he meets Phoebe, and realizes she only has days to live, the need for an antidote takes priority. And the more he gets to know her, the more he suspects she may be as important to vampire kind as she's becoming to him.