All the official reports say they are dead-extinct since the\nlate ’80s, when a fed named Arkeley nailed the last vampire in a\nfight that nearly killed him. But the evidence proves\notherwise.

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When a state trooper named Caxton calls the FBI looking for help\nin the middle of the night, it is Arkeley who gets the\nassignment-who else? He’s been expecting such a call to come\neventually. Sure, it has been years since any signs of an attack,\nbut Arkeley knows what most people don’t: there is one left. In an\nabandoned asylum she is rotting, plotting, and biding her time in a\nway that only the undead can.

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Caxton is out of her league on this case and more than a little\nafraid, but the fed made it plain that there is only one way out.\nBut the worst thing is the feeling that the vampires want more than\njust her blood. They want her for a reason, one she can’t guess; a\nreason her sphinxlike partner knows but won’t say; a reason she has\nto find out-or die trying.

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Now there are only 13 bullets between Caxton and Arkeley and the\nvampires. There are only_13 bullets_between us, the living,\nand them, the damned.

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From the Trade Paperback edition.

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