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The murdered vampire was in several, still moving, pieces.
Beneath the London you know -- its traffic and its takeaways, its tourists and its rain -- lies Other London. A shadow metropolis of vampires, witches, and fey lords, held together by centuries of delicate, dangerous truce. All hidden behind an elaborate veil of illusion. One murder away from collapse.
The vampire Duke of London has been found dismembered and displayed -- his body strung across the sacred border between three rival territories like a declaration of war. Killing one this old should not have been possible. Doing it like this is a message.
But from whom?
Inquisitor Albrecht Voss is sent to investigate. Four hundred years old, impeccably dressed, painfully self-controlled, and desperately trying to control the monster bubbling inside. -- he has a secret the Grim Council cannot know. The dead duke was his closest friend. His secret lover. And he has already made a promise that he will find the killer at whatever cost. And exact revenge as well as justice.
He is given a partner he didn't ask for. Eleanor Hexwood -- witch, divinator, and a woman who considers every vampire on earth an abomination. She has her own reasons for taking the case. A deadly magical artefact, stolen from the crime scene, that her coven has tasked her to recover.
And somewhere across London, a human petty thief named Jack Hartley is sitting in his flat with a stolen wooden box pressed against his chest. The thing inside has a pulse.
And it speaks to him.
The First Heart -- the beating organ of the first vampire ever made -- has surfaced after millennia. Every faction in Other London will kill to possess it.
They will start with Jack.
The First Heart is the first book in the Eat Not The Blood series. A dark and secret supernatural London, both familiar and strange. A series of magical crimes.
And two occult detectives from opposing factions, trying to keep the city from destruction.
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