The Fealty of Monsters

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Winter 1917</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. After years on the run from a dangerous cult twenty-three-year-old Sasza and his father have established themselves among the Odonic Empire's ruling class. But there's a problem: Sasza is a vampire and vampires aren't supposed to get involved in human governance. What the aristocracy doesn't know after all cannot hurt them.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unfortunately Sasza is far more involved than a stealth vampire should be. Not only does he work to quell the rumors of the vampires' responsibility for an unsolved massacre his lover is also the pro-proletariat Ilya the Empire's Finance Minister who tries to recruit Sasza into the same cult hunting him.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Then-the</span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Emperor declares war against the Vampire States. Diplomacy has failed. Sasza quickly learns that he will do anything to preserve peace-including giving in to the monstrosity he spent so many years concealing from even himself.</span></p>