Blood Lines

An Egyptian tomb has been opened in Toronto. The Egyptology Department of the Royal Ontario Museum has taken in a sarcophagus whose seals and spells are being chipped away by the people who found it. Inside lies something that has waited centuries for the chance to live again and feed on the unwary.

Once free, it begins reaching into the minds and souls of ordinary city dwellers. Its aim is to build an empire for itself and its god. Only three people have any hint that something is wrong.

Henry Fitzroy, a 450-year-old vampire, is haunted by a persistent image of the sun, a symbol of death for his kind. Afraid for his sanity, he turns to Vicki Nelson, an ex-cop who is his sometime lover and his partner in supernatural investigations.

Vicki's closest friend and former police partner, Detective Mike Celluci, is looking into two deaths at the museum. He is sure they are murders, not accidents, and he is just as sure that a mummy raised from the dead is the killer.

The horror and fantasy mystery runs on three separate tracks: a vampire's visions, an ex-cop's help, and a detective's murder case. Sooner or later they have to meet.