She has only one Christmas wish, to find her father. Dhampir Charlotte Smith has been searching for her father for centuries. Part of her doubts that he's still alive after countless inquiries and increasingly half-hearted searches. She finds new urgency as she falls for her patrol partner Armando and starts imagining a future with him. But Armando is a pureblooded vampire, and her mind is full of the real consequences of a union between them, where she will grow old and he simply won't. Armando wants Charlotte to give him a chance and so he enlists the one thing she hasn't tried: magic. He seeks out a fae that can help him find her father and begins an adventure of a lifetime. For Charlotte isn't just his coworker, she's his lifemate, his one-and-only. It's time he proved it to her.