Vicissitudes

Renee set out to be an artist, not a warrior. She's the consort of a vampire lord, while her former best friend has become a vampire hunter. Awkward. Not even death can stop Renee from using her teleportation ability to protect her community. But her cousin Gil, who has access to their grandfather's temporal and spatial technology, has also joined the ranks of her enemies.

As Renee struggles to accept a profound change in her existence, she finds her family targeted by two separate groups of vampire hunters, as well as enemies of their own kind. Gil and his compatriots vanish by making use of a backwater in the stream of time, only to be replaced by hunters who plunge the already divided vampire enclave of Abbey Keep into chaos through abduction and murder. Meanwhile, Gil is poised to pop back into existence just when he's not expected, bringing with him a crew of killers determined to turn Abbey Keep into a pile of radioactive rubble.