Knowing Dedra needs something to get her out of her thirtieth-birthday blues, a friend presents her with an unusual gift -- a photo shoot with photographer Marcellus Oakes. Marcellus specializes in sexy, gothic style photos he takes in his studio home, a reconstructed medieval castle.
Tall, pale and with a body to die for, Marcellus sends her libido into overdrive. Dedra finds there's more to this gorgeous photographer than she'd ever imagined. He's sexy. He's seductive. He's eighteen hundred years old and in need of a woman just like her.