Near dawn, Patrick and Troy stopped at a small brick building in the middle of nowhere. Troy motioned Patrick out of the car and to the door, where a vampire stood just inside. Patrick cringed back from his hard eyes, but Troy sneered and breezed past him to a door at the far end. A set of stairs descended into darkness and Patrick hesitated. He'd escaped one black subterranean hell, only to land in another.

He stumbled his way down the stairs and Troy pulled him through an ...