Unusual Practices

Sasha Blythe, police sergeant and Guardian of the only remaining active stone monument in the three lands, realises that shes only got seventeen days until her first solstice ritual. Maybe she should get off her backside and find out why the events of the previous solstice killed the old Guardian, her all powerful grandmother. If only to ensure that it doesn't happen to her because if it does and she can't take the power up through the stones and disperse it back into the land then 63 million humans will starve to death. No pressure then.
The good news is that her grandmother arranged some help from her deathbed. The bad news is that it's the Prince of all the vampires, quite simply the most dangerous creature on the planet.
Or is he?