Ramonne

<p><strong>A year after he became embroiled in a seductive web of blood-letting sexual excess and mind-altering time shifting with a 175 year-old Vampire Martin Larue returns to his adopted home of Bangkok a changed man.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>With his shaved head and orange robe he is barely recognized by the doorman to his luxury apartment.</p><p><br></p><p>For twelve months he had studied the Dharma of the great teacher Bhuddah. Learned the noble truths. Practiced the three fundamental principles - Not to do any evil. To cultivate good. To purify the mind.</p><p><br></p><p>His transcendent nirvana is shattered by the appearance at his apartment of Police Lieutenant Samarat who seeks his help in tracking down a killer - a killer who drains the blood of his victims.</p><p><br></p><p>In a cave on the shore of Cambodia Ramonne the vampire has also been reborn. A local Shaman had procured just enough of his ashes from his fiery demise to concoct a mystical potion that when injected into an infant bat metamorphosed into an adult male vampire.</p><p><br></p><p>When his transformation was complete he was taken from the cave by Kanchana a wealthy young woman who is terrified of a ravenous disease that has progressed through all female members of her family. The evolving vampire offers her the only chance for salvation - the gift of eternal life.</p><p><br></p><p>Ramonne complies and for awhile there are a pair of vampires stalking the shadows of Bangkok.</p><p><br></p><p>???????Martin is reunited with Areeyah the sultry daughter of his and Ramonne's former nemesis Boonsong and through their common suffering a romance is born. They join the new Police Lieutenant to help find what Martin prays is not a vampire. However Martin soon learns the truth.</p>