Kirjahaku

Charissa is a 200-plus-year-old vampire living and working in Old Town, Chicago, only blocks away from the parish of one 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 each other's patterns in odd daydream interludes, building toward a newfound connection neither of them can deny. Before long, Charissa begins to experience Communion services conducted by Christopher as though she herself were drinking the blood the wine represents, and he sees sessions she conducts as a dominatrix, a way she's learned over the years to feed in a setting conducive to such. Their lives become more and more entangled as each grapple with the interruption this unwanted bonding has wrought.Moreover, 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 reconnect with her after over a century of silence between them.Though still struggling with the insanity their insertion into each other's lives has wrought, Christopher and Charissa find themselves, and 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.

Two cousins: Emily, a young American witch & Erika, an Indian lycan meet a vampiress from England. Emily and Erika come of age in early America during the late 1700s in the pre-state of Tennessee. Emily's uncle, to the chagrin of her father, Robert, visits Chickasaw Indian land and marries, producing Em's cousin, Erika. Over their formative years, Emily is kept from seeing her uncle Jed (for Robert knows nothing of his daughter); as his prejudices are strong against the natives, and now, his own brother. Nonetheless, the girls become aware of each other through 'dream-walking' abilities they both seem to possess. Erika by way of her Indian beliefs; Emily by blood, as her mother is a retired witch, also unknown by Robert. Simultaneously, during this period, an English woman-turned-vampire seeks refuge in the land of opportunity to escape a downward-spiraling situation of her own making - revenge murders upon those responsible for sending her on mission where she was ultimately turned into a vampire-cannibal hybrid. Eventually, the three ladies lives wind up on collision course to rendezvous, resulting in a wildly dark and dangerous adventure.