
New York City is experiencing a deadly heatwave. Lieutenant John Brannagan doesn’t think anything could make this heatwave worse, but he is wrong.

The vampires in The Second Species series do a lot of things—they have wings, they fly, they fall in love, they drink blood, they kill—but they do not sparkle. Since they live and walk among humans, sparkling would be a dead giveaway. Marek even owns a restaurant in New Orleans. But not all is well in their world.