Children of Red Rain

Ten years ago, the Red Rain fell, and the world was reborn in blood.

Civilization is a graveyard haunted by "Freaks"—the feral, mindless victims of a vampiric plague. They are the masters of this broken world, and humanity is their cattle.

Levin Graves is a ghost, a scavenger who thrives in the ruins where others perish. Born with a unique genetic flaw, he is invisible to the Freaks, a biological null-space that doesn't register as prey. For a decade, he has survived by adhering to one simple, brutal rule: never get involved.

His solitude shatters when he stumbles upon a Freak nest and discovers a woman caged within, kept alive as a living blood bag. The woman is Kreya, a "Sane"—one of the rare, conscious vampires who retained her mind. In a reckless moment of humanity, Levin frees her, slaughtering the nest and breaking his only rule.

The act forges a dangerous bond between them. Kreya is a beacon, her powerful blood drawing Freaks for miles, while Levin is a ghost who walks among them. To survive, they must rely on a dark, intimate sacrament: her survival now depends on his blood, a temporary cure for the feral madness that threatens to consume her.

Hunted by Kreya’s former masters from the Aerie—a hidden enclave of vampire aristocrats who want their property back—and pursued by a human death cult that worships the plague, Levin and Kreya uncover a terrifying truth. The apocalypse was not random. It was a culling.

Now, their desperate flight for survival has become a hunt. Armed with the secrets of their enemies, they must fight a war on two fronts. But in a world where the greatest threat is not the monsters who want to drink your blood but the ones who want to control your future, can a ghost and a fallen queen save humanity from itself?

Fans of Stake Land, The Passage, and I Am Legend will love this gritty, fast-paced, and scientific take on the vampire apocalypse.