Written in high-octane prose of supreme spareness and clarity, the first in a series of dark, hypnotic novels that represent a completely new take on the vampire genre.

One night in 2012, Zhang Guo Xing takes a group of European clients to a fashionable high-end nightclub in Shanghai. While there, he meets a strikingly beautiful young Western woman called Naemi Vieno Kuusela. The physical attraction between them proves irresistible, and they embark on an intoxicating affair. But Naemi is not what she appears to be...

Though Zhang falls under her spell, she keeps her distance, and the relationship is conducted entirely on her terms. He feels driven to find out more about her, and is swiftly drawn into a web of intrigue, mystery and horror. Is she a ghost? A demon? Do the living dead walk the streets of twenty-first century Shanghai?

Written in high-octane prose of supreme spareness and clarity, the first in a series of dark, hypnotic novels that represent a completely new take on the vampire genre.

One night in 2012, Zhang Guo Xing takes a group of European clients to a fashionable high-end nightclub in Shanghai. While there, he meets a strikingly beautiful young Western woman called Naemi Vieno Kuusela. The physical attraction between them proves irresistible, and they embark on an intoxicating affair. But Naemi is not what she appears to be...

Though Zhang falls under her spell, she keeps her distance, and the relationship is conducted entirely on her terms. He feels driven to find out more about her, and is swiftly drawn into a web of intrigue, mystery and horror. Is she a ghost? A demon? Do the living dead walk the streets of twenty-first century Shanghai?

Written in high-octane prose of supreme spareness and clarity, the first in a series of dark, hypnotic novels that represent a completely new take on the vampire genre.

One night in 2012, Zhang Guo Xing takes a group of European clients to a fashionable high-end nightclub in Shanghai. While there, he meets a strikingly beautiful young Western woman called Naemi Vieno Kuusela. The physical attraction between them proves irresistible, and they embark on an intoxicating affair. But Naemi is not what she appears to be...

Though Zhang falls under her spell, she keeps her distance, and the relationship is conducted entirely on her terms. He feels driven to find out more about her, and is swiftly drawn into a web of intrigue, mystery and horror. Is she a ghost? A demon? Do the living dead walk the streets of twenty-first century Shanghai?