Richard Wilkes is a man often at odds with himself. He takes care of his aged, adoptive father. He struggles with drinking. He is infatuated with a woman whom he's scarcely spoken to. He helps his ailing neighbor with house repairs. A devout Catholic, he compulsively goes to confession for the people he murders in fits of hungered frenzy, only to go and do it again, and again, and again. Richard is a vampire. And when a woman hunts Richard down, believing him to be the one who abducted her pregnant sister, Richard discovers a chain of inexplicable abductions all over the city - women, in the final weeks of their pregnancies, vanished without a trace. As Richard digs further into the dark, supernatural underbelly of Chicago, he hears rumors whispered about a new kind of evil walking the streets, one so terrible that even demons are afraid to speak his name - someone that seeks to set the whole world on fire and smother out heaven with the smoke. The demons, they say he was a man, at one point - but he's gone on to become something much, much worse...
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