When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.

Told in two voices, Pen, whose dream of taking over her family's restaurant has been destroyed, and Xander, a new, undocumented, employee seeking his father, form a bond.

Siobhán O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings. It's been a rough year for them, but it's about to get rougher when they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of scissors protruding from his chest. With the local garda suspecting the O'Sullivans, and the business being shunned, it's up to Siobhán to solve the crime.

Tempe Brennan, forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec, is in Montreal, digging up skeletons in a pizza parlor basement. The homicide detective believes the bones are historic, but Tempe finds them to be recent murders. A detective whom Tempe is looking for as a permanent part of her life is acting mysteriously. As she searches for answers in both her personal and professional lives, she finds herseld drawn deeper into a web of...