Brittiny Rinehart

In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs - including Jamie’s mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession.

The war is tearing our world apart. Instead of big armies with tanks in the field, the Vampire War is fought in the streets, neighbor against neighbor, family against family. Anyone can turn at any time. The blood hunger can suddenly appear in the middle of a kiss. The person who sleeps next to you every night could wake up in the dead of night... hungry. So hungry.

Roy Stikes is a genius scientist. Our government recruited him to work for them in a top-secret building full of labs meant for high-clearance biological war tactics. Diseases and viruses are what Dr. Stikes studied, but he excelled in rare and unheard of strains of the flu, which made him an extremely valuable asset. As "by protocol" as he always was, it made no difference that one fateful day when he so carelessly let a drop of the malevolent virus leak out onto his lab table. Roy managed to evade cameras, hide his mistake, and leave the building.

What happens when, on a perfectly ordinary evening, all the things you believed in and took for granted are turned upside down? When her husband of more than 20 years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends a good marriage.