A string of mysterious, gruesome deaths in the Shiprock area has attracted the attention of FBI agent Diane Lopez, who is stunned to learn that one of the victims was a childhood friend. To Diane, the killer is unmistakably a vampire—but the only vampire she knows of is Lee Nez, a State Police officer who prefers his blood chilled in the refrigerator, not hot from someones neck.Supernatural explanations for the deaths abound—some believe they are the work of the goatsucker spirit, others that the killer is an extraterrestrial. Lee Nez, assigned to the case at Dianes request, privately agrees with her that theres a vampire on the loose, but announces that they are looking for a serial killer. Lee and Diane discover that the victims all worked for a secret government lab that was studying a captured vampire, Stewart Tanner.
