Nightmare — William Anthony Shea

A nightmare begins when innocence is lost. Following an age in darkness and blood, history is doomed to repeat itself as misery invites company. What begins with a vampire fallen to the decay of a melancholy dream, leads to tragedy and loss, and ultimately acceptance. Helena, a child on the verge of becoming a woman hunts her own kind long after revenge has lost its meaning. She walks the ages in the guise of angelic death clinging to the feelings that hold back the bare threads of the nightmare, but also force her to accept the consequences of all that she has become in the long night...