Jesse Ross - unwilling vampire - destined to be the key player in a war to enslave humanity.
Dreams of vampires, a nameless beauty and a sudden need for cheap sunglasses - what is happening to Jesse Ross?
Jesse has hit a mid-life crisis where whiskey has become his best friend. But why is his body changing? His eyes become sensitive to sunlight and food makes him ill. When he sleeps, he dreams of superior beings - the Blood Born.
One night at a local bar the nameless dark-haired beauty of his dreams enters his world. Her name is Sabrine and she is one of the vampires. He learns he is an inheritor; born human but changing into a vampire and it is his destiny to become the Prodigy, who will possess all of the deadly gifts of the Blood Born. Jesse is descended from a hidden blood-line that offers him a future that will forever change the world - for the Long Night is coming - the age of darkness when the vampires will rule the earth.
Will he lead the vampires in a war to enslave humanity or start his own war to save mankind and himself?