title: Don't Bite the Messenger
author: Summers, Regan
description: Anchorage, Alaska
  The vampire population may have created an economic boom in Alaska, but their altered energy field fries most technology. They rely on hard-living -- and short-lived -- couriers to get business done...couriers like Sydney Kildare.
  
  Sydney has survived to the ripe old age of twenty-six by being careful. She's careful when navigating her tempestuous clients, outrunning hijackers and avoiding anyone who might distract her from her plan of retiring young to a tropical, vampire-free island.
  
  Her attitude -- and immunity to vampires' allure -- have made her the target of a faction of vampires trying to reclaim their territory. Her only ally is Malcolm Kelly, a secretive charmer with the uncanny habit of showing up whenever she's in trouble. Caught in the middle of a vampire turf war, Sydney has to count on Malcolm to help her survive, or the only place she'll retire is her grave...
  
  32,000 words
  