Carly is a burnt-out career woman who decides to pack up and move her life and her business to Wyoming. She buys an old farmhouse that has an unexpected feature - a vampire living secretly beneath it.

The Master Vampire, Dmitri Belakov, must judge the woman who has bought the land and house above his own. He's had a centuries-long compact with the former owners, but their line is at an end and he must either form a new compact with this woman or kill her to protect his peace. Her mind is unusually hard to influence, but he finds his way to her in dreams.

Their shared dreams are more erotic than either of them expect and fire a hunger in Dmitri to know this woman's feel and taste in the flesh. Revealing himself to her, he risks much, but she is unable to fight the attraction arcing between them. But will she choose a life with him over the sun? Or will she choose death?