The Shadowblood Chronicles Part One

<p><strong>Two centuries under vampire rule humanity pays its dues in blood. Marcus Ford a factory worker and underground fighter wants only to survive unnoticed in this grim new world. But survival has a price.</strong></p><p>When his vampire manager descends into feral madness Marcus is forced into a desperate act of self-defense killing a creature of the night. Overnight he becomes St. Louis's most wanted fugitive hunted by the Kwarin the vampires' elite enforcers and ensnared by the obsessive ancient shifter vampire Lena who orchestrated his downfall.</p><p>Thrust into a war he never chose Marcus discovers a hidden lineage prophesied to shatter the eternal reign of the Masters. Allied with a fledgling human resistance and a police lieutenant who sees more in him than a killer Marcus must navigate a treacherous landscape of betrayal and shifting alliances. As vampire factions prepare for a city-wide cleansing with Marcus as the scapegoat he faces a horrifying transformation that could be his doom or humanity's last desperate hope.</p><p><strong>He killed a vampire to live. Now to save others he might have to become something worse.</strong></p>