The Born Black Vampire

He was born during a storm that sounded like blood raining from the sky. His mother died the moment she touched him. The village that raised him learned to fear him before he could even speak.

His name is Xozo. By seven, He hears hearts beating in the dark. He smells terror on the wind. The dead claw at the earth, whispering his name.

A scarred hunter named Seris arrives with a terrifying truth: the black blood of the first vampire runs through his veins—an ancient curse that comes with a hunger powerful enough to destroy everything he loves.

Only one thing stands between him and the darkness.

Nara. She is not his mother by blood. She is the woman who chose him when the world wanted him drowned. She held him when the village cast him out. Her love is the only light he has ever known. And now, something ancient is waking beneath the village—calling his name, demanding his blood.

The dead are learning how to stand.
The shadows are closing in.
And Xozo must make a choice:

Will he surrender to the hunger and become the monster the world already fears?
Or will he learn to command the darkness—and become something the night has never seen before?

The first coffin has opened. The night will remember his name.