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Hampton is an ordinary city on the outside, but it has a dark current underneath. Long ago back before the United States was founded ancient tribes of man lived in the darkness of night. They claimed immortality but it came at a price – they needed to survive on the blood of others. During the colonization of America another creature came to Hampton – half man, half wolf. These two clans began to war for power with in Hampton. It was transparent to those who did not believe in their existence, but the lines of the city were always changing underneath. This is the world that Val Storm calls home.

Val Storm is considered by most normal people to be a wacko or making things up to sell her magazine. Underworld: The magazine sells to those same people who buy the tabloids and to those who live in that world with Val. To them it is real. To them Ms. Storm provides valuable information. It is for this reason that Val’s help is much more that what Charles had anticipated at first.

But before Val can help him, Charles must go through her keeper, Johnny Rose. Johnny owes Rose Brewery and well established business man – and vampire. The world sees Johnny as eccentric but completely normal in his 50’s attire. Johnny’s Master gets wind of the detectives need and he intervenes with the War Council. The council consists of ironically the Mayor of the City and the Local Werewolf Alpha male. They all form a group to help Charles learn what he needs to. It is a temporary truce.

The group helps Charles and Juliet integrate into their world and when they feel he is successfully integrated they take him to where the killer seems to be pulling his victims from, Escape. A club that changes locations nightly and only those who know how to find it can ever get there to join the festivities. But that night turns dark when one of their own goes missing. Three days later she is found dead – same MO, same killer, the fight to look for the savage murder grows stronger for all of them.

There is a fight to who will act on their plan. The bait is the most important thing to lure the killer out, but the detectives want the bait to be Juliet, but the vampires and werewolves don’t think she can pull it off and want Val to do it. After some trial and error they all agree it should be Val in disguise, since most people know Val Storm. It takes several days before the killer bites, but when he does, the police are almost too late to save Claire’s life. T the detectives now face a dilemma. Do they reveal the vampire and werewolf world to the population of Hampton and look like crazies or cover up the details to save their jobs and the lives of those who had helped them. Val gives them the best option. They cover up the vampire and werewolf involvement and motives of the serial killer but Val would publish their side. She was already a crazy, but her words would reach many.

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