Draven Ozul was born a vampire on the hidden island of Akrithos, where ancient elders feed on humans and consider mortal lives mere statistics. But when he flees to New Avalon—a sprawling coastal city of towering spires and flood-prone underground districts—he makes an impossible choice: to protect humanity rather than prey upon it.Working as a private investigator with Sam Varick, his loyal human partner and blood supplier, Draven thinks he's left his monstrous nature behind. That illusion shatters when mysterious deaths begin plaguing the city's lower wards—victims found drained of blood without a single wound. The killer isn't another vampire. It's something far more sinister: a corporate biotech device that turns human bodies into remote feeding stations. But stopping one murder machine is only the beginning. As Draven delves deeper into the conspiracy behind the technology, he discovers that human science is stumbling toward powers his own people have guarded for centuries—field manipulation, blood resonance, and the ability to tear holes in reality itself. When those experiments awaken something ancient and hungry in the spaces between worlds, Draven must forge an impossible alliance: vampires and humans, street activists and scientists, local politics and cosmic forces. From the flooded tunnels of New Avalon's undercity to the boardrooms of powerful corporations, from hidden vampire islands to the depths of space itself, Draven's investigation expands into something unprecedented—a battle for the soul of cooperation itself, fought across scales of existence that span from individual conscience to intergalactic consciousness.