Night Blood — James M. Thompson

A TASTE FOR BLOOD
Maine, 1820. Lost in a blizzard, a young woodcutter seeks refuge in an isolated cabin, never suspecting that the recluse who lives there is not what he appears to be -- or that the strange-tasting brew he's offered isn't tea. Too late, the woodcutter realizes that he is doomed to wander the earth, consumed by a raging thirst that can only be sated with human blood.

A THIRST FOR MORE
Houston, Present Day. For more than a century, he has hunted for fresh prey to feed his inhuman need. Now, his immortality threatened by a deadly blood disease raging across the globe -- and pulsing in his own veins -- he brilliantly reinvents himself as a world-renowned doctor, racing against time to find the cure that will save him.

A HUNGER FOR DEATH
As death shadows the infected doctor, ER Physician Matthew Carter and forensic pathologist Samantha Scott are in their own desperate race to find a vicious serial killer who leaves his victims' bodies horrifically drained of blood. A killer who is poised to strike again . . . and is closer than they think.

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