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Empire Of The Undead by Gary Cross

London has been destroyed by fire, killing all vampires, except for Father Baldwin and a reluctant newly undead called Mary Shire. She was only fifteen years old and hates being a vampire. She can’t have the future promised to all Christians to go to heaven when they die but is instead doomed to walk the earth as one of the undead and cursed to drink the blood of the living for sustenance for all eternity. But Mary refuses to drink human blood.

A vampire hunter called Lucian had been sent by the Pope to wipe out the vampires, but he and his men were greatly outnumbered. When the fire started he took shelter in a house with Mary and her brother Peter, but when vampires overran the house the trio fled to St Paul’s Cathedral, where they met Father Baldwin and his human familiar, Father Christopher.

With Lucius and Peter on their trail, Mary and Father Baldwin (the vampire that tore open her neck and cursed her for eternity) travel to the new world in the hope of rebuilding a vampire army and discover an ancient vampire race far superior and more deadly than anything they could have imagined.

Will Peter and Lucius be able to stop Father Baldwin and the new breed of vampires? Will any of them survive the horrors that await in Mexico and South America? Can Mary prove that all vampires don’t need to be evil? Can she resist the call for human blood?

Unlike most of the books on vampires around at present, this is not some romantic love story but a classic tale of horror that will have readers on the edge of their seat.

RRP $22.00
Published and distributed by Penguin Group under the Puffin title

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