Detective Brady Lindstrom deals in death, and not just because he's a homicide cop with the slaughter of a century to solve. Ten years ago, vampires murdered his lover. Ever since, he's looked over his shoulder, ready for vampires to strike again. Or maybe just the one he loved.<br><br>Exhausted and angry about the needless deaths he has to investigate, Brady worries the killers he's looking for aren't even human. Those fears are compounded by an unexpected visitor, the battered and nearly broken Cole Singer, the lover he'd long ago given up for dead.<br><br>When Cole offers to trade information on the killers in exchange for sanctuary, Brady realizes he doesn't have a choice. It isn't about justice. He simply can't turn his back on the face of the only man he's ever loved. Even if he's a vampire.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Cole read it in his face, like he had always done. Closing his eyes, he shook his head as he seemed to sink into the couch. “You don’t want to hear any of this. I’ll stop. I know it’s a waste of time.”


Anger bubbled up inside him. It was the dismissal he’d been waiting for, but the fact that Cole thought he could still call the shots spurred Brady closer.


Crouching next to the couch, Brady yanked on the ropes, cinching them tighter in order to get Cole’s attention. “You know what was a waste of time?” he hissed. “Spending a week looking for you. Pissing off every cop in a fifty-mile radius with calls. Bugging them for information. Trying to get them to do their job when you were already dead, just looking for a way to get back at me.”


Chapter 10