After his fiancee mysteriously becomes a Corpus and his family disowns him for staying true to her, Thaddeus Meridies decides to fight against his family for his new family to establish a place where his family can live peacefully and to bring justice to a Church blinded by worldly goods and power.
Included in this book is a short story called Useful Suffering. It's based on a dream where a young man moves to a prosperous suburban neighborhood that is secretly cursed at night when everyone is infected with vampirism but also forgets everything that happened during the night, and no trace of it can be found after the night is over.