Bernard Bloodworth - Modern Vampire Life
Four months have now passed since the British Society of Vampire Enthusiasts and Familiars' annual general meeting at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds and Bernard Bloodworth now lives a quiet life away from the BSVEF following his unfortunate excommunication for breaking protocol and averting a vampire coup.
He keeps records. He follows rules. He prefers problems that can be filed, labelled, and put away.That changes when Olak returns.
Olak is a vampire with old powers, bad habits, and a terrible sense of timing. He once ruled everything but now, because of Bernard, he smells faintly wrong, wears too much fragrance, and insists the world still owes him respect. Bernard becomes his unwilling helper, cleaner, organiser, and excuse-maker as Olak tries to rebuild his influence in modern England from deep within the shallow and pretentious luxury fashion industry.
Things do not go smoothly.
Meetings are held in basements and back rooms, high councils smile politely while planning consequences, old fiends return, animals misbehave and a cat named Fubu watches everything and offers no help at all.
As Olak grows louder and more desperate, someone else grows quieter and more dangerous.
A former associate understands how the world works now and waits in the darkness for an opportunity. While Olak chases attention and admiration, others builds something far more effective, using the same strange tools but with better timing and fewer mistakes.
A direct sequel to 'Bernard Bloodworth', Modern Vampire Life is a darkly funny middle-grade novel about power that doesn't notice it's slipping, strange societies and their willing acolytes and what happens when old monsters try to survive in a world run on networks, brands and quiet decisions.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
dry humour and strange situations
villains who undo themselves
secret meetings and hidden rules
stories that trust readers to keep up
This is a vampire story with no castles, no capes, no gore and no romance - just uncomfortable clothes, bad decisions, and a very patient cat.
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