Before Tyler was the best interrogator and assassin his species had ever known, he was a scared newborn vampire, forced to learn the ropes quickly.It seemed that no matter where he turned, trouble found him, and it didn't help that the wild, inhuman instincts of his rogue sire was boiling to the surface.While struggling to fight off the natural order of an evil vampire, Tyler, then known by his given name of Caelen, finds himself in a strange town with few friends, and almost immediately implicated in a string of serial murders.It is this strange series of circumstances that bring this unique vampire to the attention of the man that will ultimately install him in the outer-government body known as The Order.