1. Those Who Hunt the Night
Retired British spy James Asher has settled into academic life at Oxford with his physician wife Lydia when the ancient Spanish vampire Don Simon Ysidro appears in their home. Someone is destroying London’s vampires in their coffins during daylight, and Ysidro coerces Asher into finding the…
2. Traveling with the Dead
James Asher follows a former colleague whose secret journey east suggests an alliance between human intelligence services and powerful vampires. His pursuit takes him from London through Vienna towards Constantinople, where imperial rivalry and undead politics are becoming inseparable. Lydia Asher and Don Simon Ysidro begin…
3. Blood Maidens
In 1911, rumours reach James Asher that Wilhelm II’s agents are trying to recruit vampires as weapons for the coming European war. He and Don Simon Ysidro travel to St Petersburg, where experiments involving vampire blood may have produced an undead woman able to appear in…
4. Magistrates of Hell
In October 1912, James and Lydia Asher travel to the new Republic of China with vampire hunter Solomon Karlebach. Reports suggest that the mindless revenants known as the Others are multiplying in caves west of Peking and spreading an infection dangerous to humans and vampires alike.…
5. The Kindred of Darkness
The Master Vampire of London kidnaps James and Lydia Asher’s infant daughter, forcing the couple into a search where ordinary police assistance is impossible. The abduction is intended to control the Ashers and exploit Lydia’s scientific knowledge. Don Simon Ysidro joins them despite his hostility towards…
6. Darkness on His Bones
James Asher is found unconscious in a Paris cemetery with puncture wounds across his throat and arms. Lydia has no explanation for his secret journey to France and turns to Don Simon Ysidro, the one ally capable of protecting James from the vampires gathering around him.…
7. Pale Guardian
During the First World War, Lydia Asher serves as a nurse near the front and discovers that someone has learned to control revenants, the mindless undead feared even by vampires. Military authorities see the creatures as soldiers who obey orders, survive wounds and require no ordinary…
8. Prisoner of Midnight
In March 1917, industrialist Spenser Cochran transports Don Simon Ysidro across the Atlantic aboard a luxury liner after using drugs to enslave the vampire. Lydia Asher secures passage to rescue Ysidro before Cochran reaches the United States and demonstrates that vampires can be chemically controlled. James…