The Pale Huntress

Angela Dragos is a Dhampir. A creature born of a human and a Vampire. She is a Huntress of the Black Hand, and her sworn duty is to protect the people of Balkeñoir from the beasts that prey upon them. When a Vampiric Plague falls upon the unsuspecting city of Irondell, Angela and newest Hunter Jacob Tepes must put aside their differences and work together in order to stop an Immortal Vampire from creating his own city of the damned.

A forgotten place from a forgotten time, this contract shall test them all. After the events of the Irondell Plague, Angela Dragos is back at doing what she does best, with her partner Jacob Tepes finally recovering from the wounds he'd sustained. But now a new contract has come to the Black Hand, one whose offer comes not from counts or chiefs, but of two runaway children. When it becomes apparent that the Empire seeks them, they ask to be taken to a lost Nisthgúlian village high in the mountains to spread their mother's ashes.

The past calls...Angela and Jacob have been on the road for some time now, completing contracts in honor of the Black Hand in servitude of the Balkeñoirian Empire even as it falls further and further from the eyes of Yohnah. When a contract is called for an old friend, the Hunters find...