Other facts:

• The day job is at a community blood center for the past 14 years. (Yeah, I’m a vampire). I talk people into bleeding. On purpose.

• Married to the same man for 24 years. (Plus six years of stalking. It wasn’t a crime then.)

• Can do ten push ups IN A ROW! (subject to change)

• Have a complete zombie apocalypse bug-out bag including a machete in my trunk at all times. Just. In. Case.

 
Ruth Scott can read the energy of every person she meets. Then she meets Deacon Walker. She can see his ice-blue eyes, his black hair, and his gorgeous face. But this beautiful stranger has no aura.

Deacon is just as unsettled by Ruth—and, having spent more than two hundred years ushering souls to Purgatory, Deacon is seldom shocked by anything. As he helps Ruth to understand her true nature, she awakens desires that he decided long ago a Reaper can’t afford.

A demon invasion forces Deacon to confront the darkness in his own past even as he fights to save the human souls he’s charged to protect. When he’s taken captive, his first concern is for Ruth. But Ruth just might be able to save herself—and the Reaper she can’t live without—if she can learn to wield her new-found powers.