The Vampire Shadow

<p><strong>It's not easy being a supernatural creature in a mundane world; it's even harder when menacing dark secrets threaten to dismantle what little normalcy you've managed to create.</strong></p><p>Ralph is anything but ordinary. He's a vampire: destined to live through the ages by watching empires governments and societies rise and fall. </p><p>As a result everyday things in the world take on an otherworldly glimmer for Ralph. Up until now he's managed to stay under the radar and enjoy a shaky truce with fate. That is until an ancient enemy shows up threatening to wilt away his last thin thread of normalcy.</p><p>Ralph is hunted in a flash-on the run and digging up memories from his past he'd thought were buried for good. </p><p>He's just 70 years old right?</p><p>He's never met any of these vampires who claim to know him right? </p><p>Everything he thinks he knows isn't a lie...right?</p><p><strong>This past might just be his key to a future but is he willing to let nightmarish visions unbearable pain and a stranger who seems to know everything about him pull him into battle? </strong></p><p>This stranger Alexei is familiar but elusive: a memory clawing to get out but not strong enough to break through the veil of secrets that keep Ralph's darkest moments hidden.</p><p>The veil is the only thing holding Ralph's sanity in place as his once safe and secure world becomes a maze where enemies hide around every corner. </p><p>Alexei's cryptic words and constant presence don't help matters: he claims to know Ralph and what secrets his mind holds. Bit by bit Ralph begins to descend into a world he'd almost forgotten.</p><p>A woman's face. A body falling from the sky. Terrible visions of a man who isn't a man but a feared beast. Flashes of the past sift like puzzle pieces through Ralph's mind and story. </p><p>Will he be able to put them together? His life and the immortal lives of all vampires might be at stake. </p>