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Blood of the First
Paperback
Series: Daywalker, Book 1
Publisher Price: $18.99
Publisher: Jones International LLC
Published: Sep 16 2026
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Twenty-four years on the homicide beat teaches you how men die. It doesn't prepare you for what happens when the things that hunt them bleed into your veins.
To Detective Gabriel Jones, the city was always just bad alibis, chalk outlines, and cold industrial rain dripping through the rusted iron of the transit cuts. But beneath the municipal grid lies an ancient, predatory architecture: the Covenant, a ruthless subterranean syndicate of forty-three vampire bloodlines, and Vanguard, a black-budget military corps dedicated to their total eradication.
When a decision to step into St. Jude's pulls Gabe straight into the crosshairs of Marcus-a five-thousand-year-old progenitor holding the fragile balance of the underworld together-the line between hunter and prey shatters. Marcus takes Gabe's throat; Gabe answers with a consecrated silver bullet.
Marcus dies. Gabe doesn't.
Instead of waking as cold meat on a slab, Gabe becomes an impossible biological anomaly: a living Hybrid First Blood. His heart still beats, but his veins now carry an apex parasitic colony laced with divine silver-a lethal cocktail that burns ordinary vampires to smoking ash on contact.
Armed with twenty-four years of homicide instinct and a custom five-shot Judas revolver, Gabe is thrust into a shadow war he never asked for. His only ally is Cin: a three-hundred-year-old court executioner whose lethal grace is matched only by the dangerous, intoxicating bond pulling them together.
As a city-killing biological weapon known as the Bio-Phage threatens to purge the metropolis, Gabe, Cin, and a fractured mortal command must hunt down the carriers before the water turns into a mass grave. But in the dark, every execution carries a receipt. Putting down a progenitor doesn't end the case-it fractures the ancient seals holding back a five-thousand-year-old nightmare.
And she's already waiting for him.
Gritty, forensic, and relentless, Blood of the First fuses hardboiled noir procedural with brutal supernatural military horror.
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