Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi

My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.