When all seems safe and normal in Bon Temps, trouble is waiting just around the corner. Melody Ryan thought she had found her place by Eric's side, but when her friends are suffering and betrayal clouds her mind, her fragile human life is threatened by vampire royalty and the bloodlust of werewolves. ERIC/OC - Sequel to Tempting Fate.

Melody Ryan has lost everything. Moving to a strange new town crawling with Vampires, her world is turned upside down when she befriends a certain blonde waitress and catches the eye of one headstrong, egocentric Eric Northman. She was looking for a safe new life in Bon Temps, but fate has other ideas. Eric/OC First In Series. Sequel: Fighting Kings