Cynthia Decker, a first-year rookie with the LAPD's Hollywood Division, has not made a lot of friends due to her Ivy League education, famous father, and smart-mouthed attitude, so when she begins to sense she is being followed she believes it may be a prank played by fellow officers--a lapse of judgment that almost costs Cindy her life.

On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.

Vampires living in the City of Angels. Madison Rose, a street-smart twenty-something waitress would never have believed it-until a vampire thwarts a vicious attack against her by appearing in the nick of time and finishing off her assailant in one tasty bite. Madison has been saved by the vampires-or has she? She learns that women have been going missing; their lifeless bodies turning up drained of blood. Now the murderer is after her. As the violence...

"Discovering that his troubled adult daughter has been kidnapped, a washed-up movie star with no money to pay the ransom turns to his closest friends, a legendary Hollywood stunt man and a disgraced former LAPD detective, to get her back"--