NOW THERE'S A REASON FOR VAMPIRES TO FEAR THE DARK . . .In Alice's world - a world of the future, where London is a ghost city and the daylight is poisoned by a mysterious Cloud - vampires are real. They are not some paranormal species that has prowled the earth for millennia, but escapees from a military project gone disastrously wrong. These creatures, only twenty-seven in number, reproduce and garner the name "vampires" for their strength, speed, superhuman senses . . . and their taste for human blood.Most of the inhabitants have fled. Those that stay know better than to go into the empty districts, the vampire districts . . . but Alice is a journalist. She's stubborn that way. Walking home from work one night she discovers a vampire corpse in an alleyway, its head cut in two, and from that moment her life is irretrievably changed.She wakes, two nights later, in a strange bed with a strange man. She has no memory of how she got there, of where she is or who he is. He tells her his name is Dark, and he is a vampire hunter - or "agent", as they call themselves. These agents inject vampire blood in order to gain the strength and abilities they need to hunt the blood drinkers - a process they call "juicing". Their institute is the Temple, a converted hospital buried in its own grounds and unknown, even, to the authorities. And Alice, it seems, is their newest member.Part One of a science-fiction vampire epic where humans rule and superhumans fall.