Lizzie is now Vampire Queen and 3 months pregnant. She is now very rich, since she inherited from her father, but she and Tucker live simply in a trailer. Lizzie still has not fed on humans; she drinks Sanguine, blood bottled like a sports drink. The vampire Coda stipulates that good vampires feed on evil people to maintain the balance between good and evil in the universe, while the Reptiles, vampire descendants of Eden's Serpent, shun those laws and have been causing mayhem since the dawn of time.

Upon their return to LonePine, Lenny' Tucker's friend and inventor for the ages, inform them that his niece, Rose, is missing so they're soon on their way to Portland, Oregon, as the last anyone knew that's where Rose is.

Meanwhile, Lizzie stays home with Dad keeping an eye on her. What they find in Portland is very troubling indeed and, when they return home, they have a furious, if temporarily incapacitated, vampire on their trail. When they return to LonePine, they have some unsettling information to tell Lizzie, who is faced with rethinking her feeding habits, over which Tucker and Lenny have a falling out.

Then, Rurik, a vampire and Russian dignitary, comes to LonePine to see the new Queen, Lizzie, and there is a troubling connection between the two. Rurik informs his Queen that a Council of the Nine will take place and that's where Lizzie will have to show that she can turn humans who have the proper DNA into vampires, otherwise it will be the end of the old world order and the evil Reptiles would take over. Lizzie belongs to the Messianic line, that is either she or her baby will be the savior of both vampires and humans. And what happens at the Council of the Nine has shocking consequences.

THE COWBOY AND THE VAMPIRE: BLOOD AND WHISKEY is darker than the first book, but mightily entertaining and frightfully funny in places; you might not see a porcupine quite the way you did before. There are surprising twists and turns to the story, and not all primary characters are safe from the authors' pen (keys?), and a somewhat unexpected ending leaves the reader wanting more, thus on to further adventures with our friends from LonePine, Wyoming.

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