Welcome to Fort City, the original vampire town. The streets are soaked in innocent blood and the sidewalks paved with countless dead. It's the kind of city where anything can happen, where vampires and lycanthropes duke it out on rainy evenings and the mortals go heavily armed. The Fort has recently become bitterly divided between mortals, lead by the corrupt Mayor Jim Stranger, and the therianthropes, lead by the idealistic vampire Baron Isaak ben Jacob.The Black Coats are Isaak's vampire family, lead by his Dhampyr daughter, Jessica bar Jacob as his Chancellor. The Coats are rocked when one of their human agents, Akisha Jones is murdered. Follow Joey Bianco, vampire Master-at-Arms and his newest apprentice, Jen Ryan, as they track down the perpetrator of this heinous crime. Why was Akisha murdered? Who did it? And why is Acting Police Chief Rollins so intent to knock them off the case? Just what had young Akisha gotten herself into?
