He's looking for a girl; not just any girl, and dark-haired, brown-eyed Carolyn is the one. But does Gabriele Caccini, a student at Manchester University, really know what he wants? When a beautiful, curvacious blonde comes into his life he starts to question his motives and emotions; even a seventeenth century vampire can do that. Alone in the modern world, limiting his feeds to one a year to avoid detection, Gabriele reflects on the origins of his immortality and questions why it is he who should have the vampire gene, when over 400 women have not survived his killing kiss ... But at a house party, a fellow student spikes Gabriele's drink with drugs and his self indulgent musings are suddenly turned upside down ...

Futile Flame The second of Sam Stone's acclaimed and award winning Vampire Gene series, and this version has been specially formatted for today's e-readers. A dark and powerful creature threatens Gabriele and Lilly's immortal existence and so Gabriele is forced to turn to Lucrezia, his maker. She reveals to him the horrors of her teenage years in the sixteenth-century in the house of the Borgias, and the possessive obsession of her brother, Caesare. Her transformation into a vampire gives her freedom, but leads her on a journey of discovery which shapes the events of the past, the present and the future. Does Lucrezia's strange past have something to do with Gabriele and Lilly's problems in the present? What is the mysterious entity which seems to be staking the vampires? Finding the answers is crucial to their survival.

Lilly has been thrown into another dimension at the whim of an unnamed, undefined entity. To return to her life with Gabriele, she must find a new door, prevent a paradox and seek the truth from the past. The youngest vampire in existence, she will travel the world and centuries of vampire history to become the oldest of her kind with talents that humanize and terrorize those that would manipulate her for their ends. In the end, she must return to where she began and make choices between her first love, the tales of someone she’s had no reason to doubt, and an Über-vampire who reeks of evil and illness yet holds her heart. What is truth? What is instinct? Which acts will she commit that can preserve or will end those of her line?

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The fifth book in the thrilling, highly acclaimed Vampire Gene series, mixing horror, dark fantasy and a slice of science fiction, in a definitive new edition from Telos Publishing. Secrets can be found in the most unlikely of places … Lilly thought that her vampire lair under Rhuddlen Castle in North Wales was safe … until the dangerous fixer Darren Preacher tracked it down. Gabriele Caccini thought that he knew all about being a vampire, but his life with newly turned lover Anya is sent out of control by the discovery of a new strain of vampirism, one that leaves its victims as ghoulish revenants, shells of the beings they used to be. And deep in the Nevada desert, Lucy Collins, Gabriele’s maker, is undercover, working with the CIA investigating the vampire revenants and what they might mean for humanity. When Preacher brings Gabriele into the CIA base, Lucy fears her cover may be blown, but there is something far more dangerous than vampires hiding beneath the sands of Nevada … something ancient and vengeful, with an eternal patience and a lust for revenge. Soon, the ancient vampire family will find themselves facing their greatest foe yet, something primal and insidious, and from which they have no protection …