Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. Romance. Kristina is the daughter of Maeve and Calder, a lovely and spirited vampire and the mortal-turned-vampire Civil War doctor with whom she fell in love. Miraculously conceived, the beautiful and magically gifted Kristina eats, drinks, and sleeps as a human, but though she is close to 130 years old, she doesn't look a day over thirty-when she stopped aging as humans do. Like her mother before her, the last thing Kristina wants to deal with is falling in love with a mortal . . . for a second time. But as she knows first-hand, life always finds a way to complicate things.