Alicia Gaden is afraid, everyone seems to be changing. Everything around her seems to be going into chaos; the people while seemingly functioning, are changing before her very eyes. The water has begun to taste horrible, and everyone around them has developed an unworldly taste for the putrid liquid. They are distant and mindless, rude and violent, not only attacking each other, but eating each other as well. She isn't sure, but Alicia is willing to bet it has something to do with the foul tasting water in the city. In an effort to research the situation and protect herself from the monsters...

Cyril DeSai is an ancient vampire who has it all, but he is missing one thing: a family. He had been waiting so long. Soon, he would begin to re-establish himself. This was everything he had wanted for literally hundreds of years; since the end of the last time, anyway. But he had won, and after a time it had faded. Slowly and patiently he had put his 'life' back together again. He had focused on what he needed and what he wanted: a family. His intense focus was finally paying off; they had arrived. Once the first bite had taken place he had felt the rush of their existence, and it had woken...

Witches were bestowed with the power to fulfill dreams, but they had a major defect: They were doomed to die, and most of the time they died terrible, horrible deaths, deaths that could not be avoided. Over time they became obsessed with avoiding their own destiny. With each passing generation this idea grew in the mind of the witches. As time passed, each generation played a part in its cultivation. It was a motivating factor that would drive them to seek a solution. The vampire had something to seek. Beginning with the ancestors they began to realize the chance they may have for eternal...

The Harringtons are busy preparing for one of their vacations aboard a Cruise ship, complete with a visit to Belize for shopping and fun. But this cruise will be like no other before it, not for the Harringtons or anyone else on board. In Belize a borderline-mad scientist has crossed the line with his experiments, and now a lab-created virus has infected lab rats in a back-alley lab, turning them into the undead; he carelessly tosses out the casualties of his experiments. Regrettably a stray dog foraging for food in the alley, winds up dining on some genetically altered rats, and the meal...