If it was still beating. Angus MacKay has been undead for almost five hundred years and it`s not often something, or someone, surprises him. Until Emma Wallace. The sight of this luscious agent from the CIA`s elite Stake-Out team was enough to stop Angus in his tracks. But then he discovers that she`s a vampire slayer, intent on killing the "monsters" who killed her parents. And it`s Angus`s job to stop her. The only good vampire is a dead vampire. It`s been Emma`s motto since she committed her life to the destruction of these things. Now Angus MacKay wants to convince her differently. Sure, he`s a sexy Highland warrior who seems to have stepped off the cover of a romance novel, complete with brogue, kilt, and sword, but he`s also one of them. And it`s her job to kill him. The war is on, but will it end in the destruction of one or both of in total surrender to a passion for the ages?