AWAKENING IBD

Sinopse

London, 1910. Bram Stoker&rsquo,s Dracula had made barely a ripple in the pool of human consciousness, and it would be another 12 years before Nosferatu breathedálife into a vampire on the big screen&hellip, but even then, in human society, vampires existed. Like a seam of gold running through the coal, they were there, but you hadáto look for them.Doctor Connor became a vampire, and hadábeen dead for one hundred years.á But, will I survive the next one hundred? He was not so sure.The London of 2010 wasáa Vampire Hive. Immortality resembledáa tightrope walk over the Grand Canyon, and the difference between having a prune oráa plum for a brain wasáthe hydration that couldáonly happenáwhen a vampireáslept.Like all true predators, vampiresáevolved, learning how to &lsquo,sleep&rsquo, one compartment of their brain at a time. The down side was, that like the victims of a multiple personality disorder, although vampires were always conscious, they were not always in control.As though that wereánot enough, Mother Nature stepped in and dealt a cruel blow. An influenza epidemic killed most of the human population, created a food shortage, and forcedávampires out of the shadows.Fifteen years hadápassed and humans have becomeáa protected species, imprisoned, farmed as cattle and siphoned for their blood. The biggest cloud on the vampire horizon wasáthat humans age, and choose to die rather than condemn their unborn children to a life sentence of blood-letting.Suddenly, immortality hadáan expiration date.Doctor Connor&rsquo,s blinkered existence wasáthrown into disarray when he treated a &lsquo,vampire girl&rsquo, and alarm bells inside his head wereáset ringing. The penny droppedáthat she was a &lsquo,free range&rsquo, human, and that hiding her would beáconsidered as &lsquo,threatening the food supply&rsquo, and carriedáthe death penalty...it really should be a no brainer. And yet.Against every instinct he had, he feltácompelled to return her safely &lsquo,home&rsquo,, risking his own life and killing his own kind in the process.When Connor grippedáRebekah&rsquo,s arm,áher thundering heartbeat resonatedáthrough him. His stagnant existenceáshattered as he embracedáthe tingling joy of how it felt toábeáalive once more, and his journey into madness began. Admiration for the human spirit punchedáa hole in his shell of indifference.Rebekah couldánot escape without the doctor&rsquo,s help. Her fear of vampires tiltedáon its axis whenáConnor becameáher safe haven.Outwitting the vicious intent of a vindictive councilor, surviving attacks by the vampire councils&rsquo, guardsmen, and being sentenced to locked-in syndrome were never in Connor&rsquo,s wildest imaginings and falling in love with a human girl was something he never expected.Flying in the face of everything he should do, Connor risks everything and embraces the exhilaration of saving Rebekah and her group.Awakening is the first in a series five vampire books set in post-apocalyptic England.His mundane