The Blood Ascension-Red Night: 1

THE CITY BELONGS TO THE NIGHT. AND THE NIGHT KNOWS HIS NAME.People are disappearing. Entire neighborhoods are abandoned after sunset. Military checkpoints spread across the city as authorities struggle to explain the growing terror.When former military contractor Lucian Vale returns home, he expects to find a city on the brink. Instead, he discovers something far worse. Black-eyed predators hunt from the shadows, an ancient war between vampire Houses has begun, and a secret organization known as the Order of Ash has been preparing for what comes next.Then one of the monsters looks directly at him......and lets him live.Now Lucian is hunted by creatures older than history while haunted by visions of forgotten civilizations buried beneath the earth. As humanity teeters on the edge of extinction, he must uncover the truth behind the Blood Ascension before an ancient power awakens and the world is consumed by eternal night.