With her vampire protector Philip Brant and their human companion Wade Sheffield, a former police psychologist, Eleisha Clevon searches the world for isolated vampires and offers them sanctuary. She wants to provide a home where she can teach them to follow the Four Laws that will protect them and their kind. But not all vampires want to live by anyone's rules but their own. Christian Lefevre has been posing as a psychic, catering to the upper crust of Seattle society by making contact with their dead loved ones and leaving his clients faint and weak after each encounter.