Darkness Reigns

Riordan Montain lives a life of faith and obsessive devotion. Consumed by a desire to serve God, he becomes an ally of the Knights Templar. Upon his return home, he settles into life with his beloved family. When the Knights lose power, Riordan finds himself and all he loves in danger. Putting all his faith in God to protect his family as he goes off to defend the Knights, Riordan is devastated when he loses what he begged God to protect. Half-mad from grief and filled with rage, Riordan seeks revenge. But it is short lived and confined to an asylum, he begins to give into madness. Renouncing God and cursing humankind, he is sired by an ancient vampire named Calka and with his transformation into a vampire; Riordan finds a way to combat God and his followers for eternity. Driven by the desire for blood and unrepentant about what he is, Riordan embarks on a blood soaked journey through time, intent on recreating the daughter he lost by any means necessary. Controlled by a ceaseless desire to dominate, he destroys that which he seeks to protect. As he accumulates power and makes a name for himself within the vampire world, he is also running from demons he dare not confront. When the time comes when he can no longer fight them off, he realize not even an immortal can outlast the past. Deciding that writing is a form of therapy, he sets out to tell his life story. As he travels from thirteenth century England to plague ridden Middle Ages and present day, he seeks an understanding of himself and a way to combat that which he fears most. As he relives both his human and vampire lives, Riordan realizes that he must find a way to balance both lest he fall into the chasm again, and this time, never emerge.