The Glass Vampire — David A. Page

June 12th, 2012: A government agency known as “The Department” announces the existence of vampires to the world while simultaneously stripping them of their preternatural abilities. Left at the mercy of humanity, they swiftly become third class citizens with limited rights and no recourse. Until that fateful day, Richard Colchester had enjoyed 1000 years of vampiric immortality and unrivaled power. Now, after languishing for four years in a government internment camp, he is free again but the world he knew is gone. Forced to rely on the good will of an angry population, he leads a pathetic existence living in a small apartment and working any jobs he can find. But if his long life has taught him anything, it is that nothing ever stays the same. And with his freedom comes the chance to reclaim what he has scarified. At the center of this search lies the secret of how he lost his humanity and to whom…