Arise from the Ash: Book One of the Children of Nod Vampire Series

The Secrets That Awaken When the Sun Goes Down ... Bastien Lochner has spent his life atoning for the sinister bloodline he carries. A wealthy philanthropist, he does good in the world as a shield against the evil wrought against humanity by his kind. But now a serial killer is running rampant through the streets of Phoenix, threatening to destroy the fragile balance between vampires and humankind. Brutal and out of control, the killer's blood lust leaves a throng of mutilated corpses in its wake. Lochner suspects the presence of an old evil - an accursed plague thought to be contained in the land of his rebirth. Suddenly he and the human he loves are pawns in a deadly game for control, played by the very forces he has spent centuries defying. Lochner's fate will be decided once and for all as he struggles to keep his own demons at bay while hunting down and destroying the creature who threatens to consume the life he's fought for. In the midst of this battle, the father he has never asked for comes, at last, to claim his son ...