Creatures in the Country — Angelique S. Anderson

I'm Detective Lucien Kane, and when I woke up today, I didn't think I'd end up dead. I may be a blood-sucking vampire, but I've always liked routine. My partner and best friend, Theodore Ballard, and I had a great one for cleaning up the scum in New Orleans until Quinn Hastings came along.Now Theodore is missing, and I'm going to die.Ever since Quinn showed up, it seems like the number of people murdered by supernatural creatures has tripled. Her arrival is a magnet for monsters and death, though I can't blame her for any of it.Do I blame her for Theodore's disappearance or my death? Not really, but I blame her for destroying my regime and everything that I thought was important. I blame her for being one hell of a dame and making me want her—when she knows damn well that's what I've been trying to avoid all this time.I guess none of it matters now because when night falls, there will be no one around to stop my murder. I'll just be another corpse in the ground. Teddy will never be found, and Quinn will never know how I actually feel about her.There goes my routine.