Detective Mike Saint-Jean is an 85-year-old vampire who lives by his own code. Instead of a coffin, he sleeps in a freezer, he does not bite people for food, and he procures blood at the morgue from a vampire pathologist. Mike gained immortality sixty years ago, when at his wedding his own fiancée Coralin bit him. In modern times, a case brings Mike into contact with journalist Beth Turner, whom he saved twenty-two years ago.