Biblical tales retold as episodes in humanity's battle with the ravenous undead. This series can be read in any order. Ancient Rome. Regina endures a death-in-life as a slave in the Subura, the ancient world's most terrible ghetto -- until a strange man sees her suffering and gives her a coat, a new name, and a new life. The man is Polycarp, and he has the Gift of gazing into the eyes of the hungry dead and granting...