Mara details in computer diary entries about seeking love and wanting the words of love spoken to her. She types about her life of living in Brazil among the Humans who reject her and her attempts to receive the status of love from them. She becomes a vampire and still seeks for the status of love with her paired life mate another vampire. Mara types of doing anything for love and having the words "I love you" spoken to her in a declaration of love from her mate.