For a woman married to the vampire of her nightmares, the honeymoon's over- and reality bites. Pia Thomason is torn between two Dark Ones: her husband Kristoff-who doesn't trust her-and his best friend, Alec, who is MIA. So Pia goes back to her humdrum Seattle life, but fate has other plans. And she realizes that if she and Kristoff are going to be shackled together for better or worse, she may as well start to enjoy it. Read Katie MacAlister's posts on the Penguin Blog.