Urban Legend By Erica Orloff Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Silhouette (August 1, 2004) Language: English ISBN: 0373513224

Tessa is a vampire with a lineage stretching from England in the 1800s to Shanghai at the turn of the twentieth century to Germany during WWII, and finally now to present-day Manhattan. Determined to hold on to her humanity, she immerses herself in Buddhism, while finding herself attracted to an NYPD detective with more than a few troubles of his own. But now Tessa's quest to rid humankind of the scourge of drugs has brought vampires from all over the world to Manhattan as a new club drug penetrates the drug market. Tessa needs to even up scores centuries old in order to protect the people surrounding her. And this time . . . the stakes are higher than ever.