Dead Walkers The Protectorate Author:Angelique Armae In 1815 Ireland, Donovan Bramwell is a mixed breed: part vampire and part mortal. His grandfather heads the Protectorate, an organization consisting of vampires and humans at war with the malevolent Upyran Vampire sect that sees mortals as the lowest rung of the food chain. Donovan hates both sides. When the Upyran Vampire Prince Vestos bit him ... more »and killed his father, the Protectorate did nothing. Now his grandfather has become a total vampire, so he expects his heir Donovan to lead The Protectorate or he will be left penniless and homeless. At the same time Donovan deliberates his future, Ceni Princess Iceni needs help regaining her lost amulet stolen by Vastos when the vampires and their Roman allies eradicated her people. She chooses Donovan as her best bet and starts to seduce him into being her loyal slave, but her effort fails when he reads her mind. Still he finds a desire to help Ceni, and wonders if she already completed her seduction of what is left of his soul, which he fears will make him enslaved to Vastos. However Vastos has his own dilemma, as he knows his soul is rotting. To save himself he either must kill Donovan or Iceni, for he is a Dead Walker too.« less