If I Should Die — Marcia Colette

Having once been under the control and submission of a psychotic vampire, Dr. Clarice Adair has a new release no life and plans to live as humanly as possible. Sebastian Bova wants to the secret to how she's managed to find a plant extract that stifles urges only seen in only the most violent and unstable people in the world and he's not above seducing the answer out of her. If only he can break down the defenses that she has had in place for a century. Unfortunately, a new threat to her and her family might not only reinforce them, but shove Sebastian out of her life, too, the only man who might be able to save them all.