Blood Oath

Zach Barrows is an ambitious young staffer in the White House whose career takes an unexpected turn when he is assigned to work with Nathaniel Cade. Cade is a secret agent whose sole duty is to protect the president.

Cade is also a vampire. A blood oath binds him to the office, and he has served presidents for more than 140 years, stopping monstrous threats before they reach the ordinary, daylit world of the American dream. Zach is expected to work beside him.

Their first assignment together leads to a shadowy conspiracy inside the government and a plan to strike the United States with a gruesome new biological weapon. Zach has to keep pace with a partner who is far older than he is, and who works by rules Zach has never been taught.

This is a supernatural thriller mixed with political intrigue, told from the point of view of the newcomer who learns how much he did not know. The stakes are national from the start, and the pace is driven by the case. Zach finds the world stranger and more dangerous than he had believed, and that his partner is the smallest of his problems.