Chrysanthemum Night

Kiku Honda is on the verge of turning 26. She has just been granted American citizenship after leaving her home in Kyoto, Japan, where her mother, father, and half-sister, Yanmei, still reside. For two years, she has felt the presence of someone following her. Two nights before her birthday, the vampyre Alfred F. Jones approaches her, and promises to weave a tale of what he kind really is... before he kills her. Kiku has a choice: she must forge a sacred bond with him, or she will die.