Vial Darkness

<p><strong><em>Between Two Fires</em> meets <em>The Passage</em> in a thriller that rewrites the vampire mythos.</strong></p><p><strong>An ancient vial stolen from the Crucifixion doesn't grant eternal life. It unleashes a vampire-like curse.</strong></p><p>For two thousand years the world has unknowingly harbored a monstrous secret. A desperate act of love by a boy named Asher birthed an insatiable bloodlust a plague passed down through centuries. Now a tormented soul named Lucien bears the horrifying weight of this ancient curse his every moment a battle against the unending hunger.</p><p>In present-day Jerusalem brilliant scientist Dr. James Armstrong discovers the legend of the vial. Obsessed with conquering death he sees not a relic of dark mythology but the biological key to his revolutionary anti-aging research. He dismisses the whispers of a curse believing he can contain and control the vial's power within his Raleigh laboratory.</p><p>But the vial's hunger is not so easily contained.</p><p>As James's experiments begin the ancient evil stirs. He soon learns that some legends are written in blood for a reason and the tormented whispers of the vial's past victims become a terrifying premonition. By seeking to master death Dr. Armstrong is about to unleash a vampire nightmare that will consume everything he holds dear.</p><p><strong>A must-read for fans of Anne Rice's gothic lore the epic scientific horror of <em>The Passage</em> and the ancient evil of <em>Between Two Fires</em>.</strong></p>