


When she begins testing her machine on live subjects, things quickly spiral out of control, and Claire begins to wonder whether leaving Morganville was the last mistake she'll ever make. But Morganville and its inhabitants are never really far from Claire's mind. Enrolled in a special advanced study programme with Professor Irene Anderson, former Morganville native, Claire is able to work on VLAD, her machine designed to cancel the mental abilities of vampires. Saying goodbye to her friends, especially her boyfriend Shane, is bittersweet, and her new life at MIT is both scary and exciting. Claire never thought she'd leave Morganville, but when she gets accepted into the graduate course at MIT, she can't pass up the opportunity. But it isn't the only town with vampire trouble. Thanks to its unique mix of human and vampire residents, Morganville, Texas, is a small college town with big-time problems. But Claire Danvers isn't about to take sides, considering she has ties to both the humans and the vampires.

With the vampires indulging their every whim, the town's human population is determined to hold on to their lives by taking up arms.

With the eradication of the draug, the vampires of Morganville have been freed of their usual constraints. Unless Claire and her friends can find an antidote to save Amelie and overcome the draug, Morganville's future looks bleak. Things take a turn for the worse when vampire Amelie, the town's founder, is infected by the master draug's bite. Whilst most of the locals have already fled, student Claire Danvers and her friends Shane, Eve and Michael choose to stay and fight. Chaos has taken over the quiet college town of Morganville as the threat of the draug rapidly spreads with the help of the city's water system. When a tide of ferocious draug, the vampire's deadliest enemy, floods Morganville, its eclectic mix of residents must fight to save their town from devastation. Which means if Claire, and Morganville, want to live, they will have to fight on to the last breath. There's something worse that preys on them. Vampires aren't the top predator on earth. but is he a vampire, or something else entirely? Claire's hunt for answers leads her to solving another mystery that's long been puzzling her: why do vampires live so far out in a sunny desert when they're sensitive to sunlight? The answer has nothing to do with sunlight, but with water - and an ancient enemy who has finally found a way to invade the vampires' landlocked community. Claire is convinced creepy Magnus isn't human. The last person seen with them is someone new to town - a mysterious individual named Magnus. INCLUDES A BRAND NEW AND EXCLUSIVE MORGANVILLE SHORT STORY Claire Danvers is concerned when three vampires vanish from Morganville without a trace.
