**SHORT PREQUEL STORY** Raphael Vega wasn't always a vampire. There was a time when he was just a soldier. Raphael and his brother lost their family, but survived the war. Now there's only one thing left to do: Check in at the Republic of Floridian Islands' base to receive their discharge papers. When they arrive, the documents are nowhere to be found. Instead, they are ambushed and imprisoned. Tortured and starved, the brothers hover between death and madness. It soon becomes clear that the only way out of their prison cells is via a casket. Not an unpleasant prospect for a vampire. One explosive blast turns their prison into a tomb. Raphael barely survives. Once he recovers, he embarks on an odyssey of revenge that doesn’t stop until the last base falls. Jordan Summers has thirty-one published books to her credit and has sold over 120,000 ebooks. She is a member of the Horror Writer's Association, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, International Thriller Writers Inc., and Novelist Inc.