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AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Vampires vaqueros and starcrossed lovers face off on the TexasMexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda

As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico Nena knows a thing or two about monstersher home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead

Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago

Believing Nena dead Nstor has been on the run from his grief ever since moving from ranch to ranch working as a vaquero But no amount of drink can dispel the night terrors of sharp teeth no woman can erase his childhood sweetheart from his mind

When the United States invades Mexico in 1846 the two are brought abruptly together on the road to war Nena as a curandera a healer striving to prove her worth to her father so that he does not marry her off to a stranger and Nstor as a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros But the shock of their reunionand Nenas rage at Nstor for seemingly abandoning her long agois quickly overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh

And unless Nena and Nstor work through their past and face the future together neither will survive to see the dawn