You've never read a vampire story before that will chill and creep you out like this one. Be prepared to spend some time with it until you finish. Whitey Miller retired from the army to become sheriff of Martinsville, Idaho. Life there was quiet and easy, people cared for one another, everyone knew everyone else. The Whitey noticed a strange attraction between the mayor and one of the younger teen boys. He suspected something terrible, recalled a case from his days as an MP investigator for the army involving a colonel. Whitey contacts his old partner from the arm, Ellen, now on leave from the Baltimore police department after a deadly force shooting incident, and together they prepare to look into the case, and then the killings began.