Richard St. Martin is a nearly eight-hundred-year-old vampire living in central Massachusetts in 2009. Born in Lancashire, England, during the thirteenth century, he is a knight of noble birth and one of the most powerful and ruthless vampires alive. But Martin's world is forever changed when Jabez, a three-thousand-year-old vampire with a penchant for the indiscriminate killing of innocents, enters his realm. When Martin kills two of his rival's...