In this cross-over genre work, Rhiannon Beltene, the Beltene of the Celtic Beltene family, whose roots (and lives) go back hundreds of years to William the Conqueror, must figure out who's leaving bloodless, embalmed bodies on the Beltene mansion grounds, in secluded Brennan County, Michigan, for her to find. Rhiannon is afraid that the bodies have been bled out as some kind of tribute to her fame as a vampire novelist-but who could possibly get past the mansion's wards and enchantments and leave the strangers' bodies for her to find? Welcoming a new sheriff into the clan, researching the family's history and calling on the family's eight-hundred-year-old guardian to help her solve the mystery, Rhiannon finds that her already strange, reclusive and unusual life is now fraught with danger and death-and not of the fictional variety