Only three vampires live in Harmony Ridge, Tennessee: diorama artist Leslie Snow and her parents. Happily single, Leslie has mostly forgotten the matchmaking test she took in college...until the day a vampire she's never met saunters up to her booth at the town art fair. Ryker Maddox didn't forget, and he's here all the way from Virginia to fulfill the test's challenge: because they're both single at thirty (and, of course, made for each other), they should date.

Intrigued by his boldness, Leslie lets him take her to dinner, then offers to show him her dear hometown. Ryker makes her feel seen, not only as a woman and an artist, but also as a vampire-something she's never experienced before. Maybe there was something to that test after all.

With the betrayal of a toxic ex in his past, Ryker is determined to make better choices this time around. From their first date, he is drawn to Leslie. Her contentment both challenges and quiets his striving heart. Maybe she's right when she insists he's worth more than the sum of his achievements.

But the distance between their lives is wider than the miles they have to travel. Ryker has never spent more than a few hours in a small town; Leslie has never lived anywhere else. He's lived his whole life immersed in vampire culture; her knowledge about their kind has always been limited to what her mysteriously reluctant parents were willing to share. If love can bridge all differences, Ryker and Leslie need an extra strong bridge...especially when his ex shows up wielding threats.