Deborah Dickey

Dr. Wendy O'Connor has dedicated her life to saving others. But when Xander Thorne is brought into her trauma bay, she knows immediately there's something impossible about him. Xander is a five-hundred-year-old vampire with a violent past and enemies who have never forgotten him. Wendy should fear him, but the attraction between them is impossible to resist. And for a man who has spent centuries taking lives, her compassion awakens something he thought was long dead.
But loving Xander puts Wendy directly in the path of his enemies, and staying by his side may demand the ultimate sacrifice. She's spent her life fighting death. Loving him may mean surrendering to it.