By David Wellington
[Read by way of Bernadette Dunne]
Laura Caxton vowed by no means to stand them back. The horror of what the vampires did is simply too shut, the injuries too clean. but if Jameson Arkeley, damaged and rarely recognizable, involves her with an unfathomable, unholy discovery, her get to the bottom of crumbles.
Arkeley leads Caxton to a tomb in Gettysburg lately excavated by way of a neighborhood archaeology professor. whereas town, with its mythical position within the Civil War's worst conflict, isn't any stranger to cemeteries, this one is remarkably, eerily diversified. In it lie a hundred coffins -- ninety nine of them occupied via vampires, who, fortunately, are lacking their hearts. yet one of many coffins is empty and smashed to items.
who's the lacking vampire? Does he have entry to the ninety nine hearts that, if positioned again within the our bodies in their proprietors, might reanimate a complete bloodthirsty military? How did the vampires turn out there, undisturbed and undiscovered for a hundred and fifty years? the reply lies in Civil conflict records that include sinister secrets and techniques in regards to the newly chanced on coffins--secrets that Laura Caxton is set to discover as she is thrown right into a lethal, ugly challenge of saving a whole city from a mass invasion of the undead. . . .
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Caxton opened the lid of the laptop and watched the screen flicker to life. A mostly blank window opened, a document created by a word processor. Malvern was too far decayed to be able to talk or even gesture much, but she could hunt and peck on a computer keyboard, sometimes taking hours to tap out a few characters. If left alone all night with the computer sometimes she tried to communicate with the world outside her coffin. It was rare that she had anything worthwhile to say—mostly she wasted her time on idle threats and dark imprecations.
It would certainly be a first. “I’ve never gone into an official interview in my life where I wasn’t properly dressed,” he explained. ” She stared at him for a long time. Jameson Arkeley, vampire killer emeritus, needed somebody else to tie his tie. She fought back the wave of bitter sadness that gave her but she couldn’t quite swallow her pity. “Alright,” she said. She unfastened her seat belt. It was easy enough to get the tie on him. She’d tied Clara’s tie plenty of times. When the knot was tight enough for him he grunted in satisfaction.
She dug her notepad out of her pants pocket and threw it to him. ” 4. They asked I tell my tale. I should like it not, save the War Department demands it of me, & no man, no living man can call me SHIRKER, so I will write down on these pages what happened to me & to the men of my charge, & what horrors I have seen & what tragedies did occur. Also, of those trespasses we committed. So be it. Let me begin after the battle of Chancellorsville, for what happened there is of no matter to my present narrative.