"When the predator becomes the prey, all bets are off."
A vampire story with mud on its boots
Autumn's Dying
Luke Bennek was slain in 1944 and has spent the decades since keeping quiet, feeding carefully, and vanishing into the rotten corners of America's cities. Then someone learns what he is.
Luke Bennek has stayed hidden for seventy years
The old hunger is not romantic.
Immortality can be a tough row to hoe, particularly when you have to continually kill folks to keep on going. Since being slain by a female vampire in the autumn of 1944, Luke has stuck to the shadows, carving out a gritty existence in the decaying sections of America's cities.
To avoid detection, he feeds only when necessary, taking those that will be little missed. For over seven decades it had gone fairly well, but time catches up with everyone. In a rapidly changing world, Luke is finding it harder and harder to stay under the radar.
1944
Made in the dark
Luke's human life ends in autumn, at the hands of a female vampire.
Decades
Urban survival
He lives on the margins, in places where missing people barely make a ripple.
Now
The hunter marked
Someone has discovered what he is, and the quiet rules no longer hold.
Soon to be released
Summer Swelter
George Harrison found the Haight-Ashbury crowd less gentle than advertised in 1967. Luke was there too, drawn by a gathering of young drop-outs too large to ignore and too anonymous to resist.
The Summer of Love was not living up to its billing for either George or Luke.
Step out of the shadows
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