After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

Disgraced ex-homicide detective Carrie Blass is enlisted to hunt down an elusive vampire who's murdered 16 women in two months, but matters become complicated when she uses herself as bait for the killer.

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.