Alice Oldman is an ex-con struggling to overcome the scars from her past. Then one night a dark stranger gives her an offer she cannot refuse. Make one special dish for his boss, the Vampire Queen.

When a sweet and quirky grad student falls for a street-tough stockbroker on New Year's Eve, it takes twenty years of ups and downs, ins and outs to discover why. And to discover that, just maybe, they're not so different after all.