Eldar Moroi Part 1 - Quidel (The Moroi Chronicles Book 2)

In the second of installment of The Moroi Chronicles, The Dewan coven lay decimated after a vicious battle with human and slayers. Quidel calls retragerea, and the vampires retreat into their sanctuary.
As Quidel prepares to ascend, and his sons bicker over who will succeed him, Maxine Tornicassa, the half-blood slayer many blame for the conflict quickly degenerating into war, sucumbs to a mysterious illness. Worse still, Quidel is losing his grip on the coven's defenses. Can he hold it together long enough to see the coven survive?