New Vampire Series, "Blood Ties" Premiers on Lifetime

Lifetime launched a new television series on Sunday, March 11, 2007, entitled "Blood Ties." The series centers on a young former female cop named Vicki Nelson. She left the force because of a degenerative eye problem that would have tied her to a desk job. Instead, she now owns her own business as a private detective.

One evening as Vicki is headed home from a failed date, she witnesses a gruesome murder. The problem is that her failing eyesight has her questioning exactly what she saw. That, coupled with the fact that the assailant disappears essentially right before her eyes, has Vicki somewhat puzzled and intrigued. But her ex-boyfriend, police detective Mike Cellucci warns against getting involved.

Vicki considers taking his advice. That is, until she is approached by the murder victim's girlfriend, Coreen, who wants her to investigate the murder. The girl is convinced that her former lover was killed by a vampire and she wants Vicki to prove it. Although the detective doesn't believe the girl's story, she eventually agrees to investigate further since it will allow her to explore.

Before very long, three murders have taken place with the only thing they appear to have in common being the method by which they were killed. Vicki, with the help of the coroner, determines that there is a lot of strange evidence in the case like salvia that doesn't match anything human or animal and a bat's wing at the crime scene that turns out not to quite be a bat's wing. All in all, things are not adding up.

Although Vicki wants to disprove the vampire theory, it becomes more and more difficult to do, particularly once she discovers that the sites for the killings, when plotted, begin to form a pentagram.

Meanwhile, a third person is also looking into the murders. The attractive young man, named , Henry Fitzroy, seeks to prove that a vampire did not kill the victims in question. Why? Because, he is a vampire who doesn't want his kind blamed for murders they did not commit. He, too, discovers the pentagram link and ends up at the next potential crime scene right along with Vicki.