Claiming a mate on conquered Earth is driving alien vampire, Rafe, insane. Twenty years in the future, on conquered Earth, the sage-kissed breeze of Red Rock carries with it the taint of blood. Alien vampire, Rafe Nucretah, has lost comrades to a vile madness that strips warriors of reason and reduces them to murderous demons. Rafe has sworn against suffering that fate, but the only cure rests is the love of a woman. Time is out for this ruler of the Western Quadrant and claiming any female will do. Spunky and courageous reporter, Pepper Morgan, has lost both her mother and a fiance to the...