"Nick frowned, looking down at his feet in the alley. It hit him again. There was something wrong with that blood. It smelled damn good. It smelled too, too good..." A vampire with a past and a homicide detective, Naoko "Nick" Tanaka has just transferred to the New York Police Department, where he works as Midnight, a vampire in the service of the human police. Like all officially registered vampires, he receives food delivered to his doorstep, lives in a government apartment and practically cannot sneeze without the United States government finding out about it. Most of all, he wants to be left alone, allowed to live his life in peace immortality, but he had only been in New York for about two weeks when everything went downhill. It all started with his new case - a case involving dead hybrids, graffiti that predicts the future, a child who should not exist at all , and a possible plot against the richest people in New York. Not to mention the school's headmistress, a woman with secrets of her own, who has an amazing ability to unsettle him. Nick finds that he cannot personally get involved in all of this. But instead, he sinks even deeper, and now he's certain that he faces forced reprogramming from his human masters... that is, provided they don't end it all by ripping his heart out of his chest.