Touch in the Night

Jesse Truelove never felt a part of his own family. But can a vampire really give him a new one?

With a criminal record, no steady job and a penchant for kink, Jesse Truelove has spent most of his life feeling like an outsider. He tells himself it doesn''t bother him, that he never needed human connections anyway.

Now the Undying Baron, Emory Von Magnusson, a vampire-or, to use the modern term, ''haemophile''-has reclaimed his ancestral home north of Jesse''s hometown, and the human population isn''t sure how to react. Jesse knows a thing or two about what it''s like to be misjudged, so he keeps an open mind. But when a bungled break-in at Emory''s home brings them face-to-face, Jesse finds it''s much more than his mind that''s stimulated.

However, building a relationship with an undead blood-drinker was never going to be straightforward, especially when that undead blood-drinker reveals he wants a family.