Eight months after the devastating series of killings dubbed "the Vampire murders," the vampire Valen Alexas has managed to settle back into his old manor in Nightfire, Texas, vigilant to keep his secret from the little town's mortal residents. But the unquiet dead have other ideas. Teeming with the spirits of Valen's past victims, the old Alexas Mansion has been roused by its recent renovation, and one spirit in particular will not rest until the monster who killed her brother is destroyed. Forced to face the painful secrets that drove him from Nightfire decades before, Valen must now accept...