Fleur Dumont has trained hard to lead her people, training she should have received from birth as the rightful blood descendent of the Dumont Vampires. Yet, she was passed over when her mother died during battle because of an emotional decision made in the past that caused her people to doubt her. Now, someone has sent a Mech, a robotic person, to kill her cousins who've been co-leading the vampires in Crimson City, once known as Los Angeles. Ready or not, Fleur must now lead her people and prove to them that she's worthy of her position.

Dain Reston knows no peace. He works for Battlefield Operations, a city level division of the Feds known as B- Ops. Dain's responsibility is to maintain peace on the streets of Crimson City. A delicate rope of peace ties the three levels of the city together. The vampires live in the stratosphere of buildings; the humans live on ground level, while the werewolves are delegated to the tunnels and underground levels of the city.

This delicate balance is severed when someone sends the Mech to kill the vampire leaders. Dain is determined to discover who has deliberately set off a ticking time bomb. The vampires are raising arms to battle the humans while the werewolves are getting unsettled. People are dying in the streets and evidence is pointing to both vampires and werewolves.

Dain meets Fleur and instantly feels a pull toward her. He shouldn't because his wife, a woman he can't remember due to an accident, was killed by a vampire. Dain struggles with the guilt of not remembering a woman he apparently loved, for now that he's met Fleur, she fills his thoughts. He's restless, feels a dark side within struggling against a passive side. Dain convinces Fleur to team up with him to discover the instigator of the war that's on the horizon in the hope that they can stop the pending disaster threatening to return them to the pre-treaty ruins of Crimson City.

Fleur is drawn to Dain even though she fights her attraction to this human. She was weak before, finding love with a human and ultimately turning him into a vampire, thus ruining his love for her. For this breach of ethics, she lost her leadership rights. She must not repeat this mistake with Dain; she must not love him. However, fate has dealt a lamentable hand leaving Fleur and Dain to make choices that can alter their lives in ways neither would have imagined.

CRIMSON CITY is the first in a welcome and exciting new six- book action series that paranormal romance enthusiasts will really enjoy. It's a world of cultures so different, but so intertwined, they must learn to live in harmony if they are to survive. Two strong characters must make choices that mean personal sacrifice for the good of humanity and are ultimately rewarded for their efforts.