The Gloaming

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For readers who loved the moral complexity of Anne Rice's <em>The Vampire Chronicles</em> and the dark atmosphere of Leigh Bardugo's <em>Ninth House</em> a contemporary gothic vampire tale with slow-burning tension - where following your heart means confronting the darkness within.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Atmospheric beautifully written and compulsively readable from the first page.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In a city where the old world bleeds into the new Erin hunts the things others can't see: fatigued reluctant and ultimately alone in her mission.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when her best friend is found dead in what the police call suicide she knows better. The investigation draws her into a world of decades-old grudges and fragmented histories - and at the heart of it a lone vampire who may be the killer the key or something altogether more dangerous.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As allegiances shift and more victims emerge Erin must navigate a landscape where immortals play long games with mortal lives each death chosen to send a message she doesn't yet understand.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dalton's restrained precise prose paints emotional realism and uncertainty with every stroke of the pen in a story that's unflinchingly honest about desire and complicity.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Psychologically merciless gorgeously restrained yet atmospherically rendered... a vampire novel that trusts you to sit in the dark alongside the creatures it examines.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Gloaming is the first book in the Blood of the Revenants series</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p>