Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery

THROUGH DARKEST TEMPTATIONWhen Dallas police detective Cami Davis joined the city's vampire unit, she planned to use the job as a stepping-stone to a better position in the department. She didn't know then what she knows now: A silent war rages between humans and their supposedly pacified predators, and the vampires are winning. With the clock running out on her kind, Cami will do whatever she must to defeat the "Sanguinary."Enter Reese Fulton, a disaffected ex-cop and a vampire. She can't exactly trust him, but with his cowboy boots and good-ole-boy drawl he's the perfect beard for Cami's fledgling undercover operation. Yet playing Reese's Claimed-a vampire's personal bloodgiver-isn't as straightforward as she was led to believe. His bite is as enthralling as his dimpled smile, and soon Cami is wondering which will pose more of a challenge: subduing the enemies of humanity...or her own desire. Vampires, vampire hunters, doctors, plagues, urban fantasy and all great things paranormal.

NEARER OBLIVIONAs a youth, Lili Banta ignored her grandmother's cryptic warnings to avoid the Houston children outside their Filipino community, and when many of those children fell ill, Lili ignored the whispers that a vampiric aswang walked among them. But Lili can ignore those rumors no longer. Returned as an adult to work for the Quarantine Station of the Centers for Disease Control, she is plagued by dark, bloody dreams that consume her nights and haunt her days. And a strange yet familiar illness has attacked the city's children. An illness only she might cure.On temporary leave from the FBI's vampire-hunting unit, Agent Scott Chandler accepts his friend and colleague's request to help investigate a series of interlinked murders and illnesses in Houston. But the task will be harder than expected. The beautiful doctor from the CDC assigned to him is a distraction, both in body and heart, and a monster stalks the night-closer than they can possibly imagine. Vampires, vampire hunters, doctors, plagues, urban fantasy and all great things paranormal.