WORK CAN BE DRAINING … Liz Adams survived her first day as an agent of the Center for Specter Control - barely. Apparently, saving humans stranded in a secret government reservation populated by vampires wasn’t challenging enough for the newly minted agent. Now, Liz and partner Craig Wright have the unenviable task of locating the rogue vampire, Vladimir Rurik, before he can revive a diminished vampire race. But questions remain:

Why is Alexei Rurik, Khan of all vampires, offering to help the agents find his brother Vlad? Will Alex’s help bring about a civil war pitting his followers against Vlad’s? Is the 1890 treaty that ended the age-old conflict between humans and vampires still relevant Can the government alone avert the impending human blood-bath or does it need an ally - and who might that be?

But before there are answers, more people will die - or be turned.In Blood City, his second novel, Jeff Seats has continued the urban fantasy that will appeal to fans of Justin Cronin-The Passage, Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro-The Strain, S.M. Stirling-A Taint in the Blood, Silvia Moreno-Garcia-Certain Dark Things, and even Jim Butcher-Storm Front.

Vamp Town and Blood City imagine a world in which vampires are alive and active and have been in the world for a very long time.

In Vamp Town humans accidentally stumbled into the vampire reservation known as Vamp Town where Vladimir Rurik found new vitality in the unexpected access to fresh blood making him strong enough to break the genetic bonds that had shackled him to the will of the leader - his brother Alexi, Khan of the Immortals - and escape the confines of the government run reservation and its packaged food supply.

Now in Blood City the secret agency administering Vamp Town - the Center for Specter Control - not only must find the rogue before he can carry out his bloody intent against humanity, but with depleted resources, must also continue keeping the other supernatural monsters under its purview from mixing with an unsuspecting population for which lycans, mutants, and vampires are merely characters that populate horror movies. The burden strains the remaining CSC personnel to the breaking point, and the task falls to agents Liz Adams and Craig Wright along with a few new team members to find the elusive Vladimir. Luck shines on them when they discover a streak of blood draining murders leading from Seattle to Portland. To find Vlad’s lair, however, they will have to probe the depths of Portland’s notorious Shanghai tunnels. Elimination is their only option. Can they succeed? Will any survive? Meanwhile, Alex’s offer to help the CSC has fallen on deaf ears as he reaches the uneasy conclusion that Vlad had correctly foreseen the failure of the treaty signed with Theodore Roosevelt establishing the vampire reservation. Now he must accept a life different from the past 100 years and the carnage he will now have to cause to sustain it. With the organization that oversees the earth’s monsters on the verge of collapse, the unprepared old-world vampire hunting establishment slowly reacts to fill the void to keep humanity safe. But in Rome, the vampiric threat has never been forgotten, and after decades in abeyance, an elite force is being called back to duty. The Cacciatori. The Pope’s Hunters.