James V Viscosi

Nate Watson is a cop in a bad section of Island City. Responding to a call from a frightened old woman, Nate and his partner encounter a group of young men playing at dark magic on the decrepit rooftops of the slums.Except they're not playing.Overpowered by the boys' mysterious abilities, Nate's partner meets his death at the bottom of a ventilation shaft. He's the lucky one. The boys drag Nate into a circle of candles and saw him open from neck to waist, playing with what they find inside. When he dies they lose interest, snuff the candles, and depart. The night cools. The crows come to feed on the corpse. But then the candles flare back into life, and the birds take frightened flight, and Nate Watson returns ... with a vengeance.

Quentin Farmer is a real estate developer who specializes in retail outlets on distressed properties. He likes progress. He likes money. He likes technology. But when he comes to the economically depressed city of Selden Falls to build his newest project, he discovers that the things you like can kill you.

Something strange is happening in the small city of White Bluff. People are disappearing; kids are turning up dead; mutilated bodies are being found dumped by the side of the road. The police are baffled. Some suspect there's a vampire cult in town.They're half right.

When mercenaries invade her lair and slaughter her hatchlings, T'Sian the dragon embarks on a quest for revenge that takes her across the content and plunges her deep into a human culture that she has always scorned. Recruiting unexpected allies and facing surprising foes, the dragon ultimately finds herself caught up in a struggle to save humanity from its greatest threat: Itself.