Chermasu

THE VAMPYRS THOUGHT THE SHAPESHIFTERS WERE EXTINCT. THEY WERE WRONG.

Alia Cheveyo's life on Third Mesa follows ancient rhythms: grinding corn, honoring tradition, walking the path her people have walked for centuries. Then Red Feather arrives at her door with impossible claims about shapeshifters, ancestral memories, and a war against vampires that's been raging in the shadows since before history.

Red Feather has been hunting vampires for decades with a pack of Chermasu: humans with the blood of the ancient Standing Wolves running through their veins. Former Marine Robert, ex-con Cleve, survivalist Winnie, and hacker Paul: each carries their own scars, their own reasons for fighting. Together, they're a surgical strike team against immortal predators.

But transformation requires more than blood memory. It requires surrender to something Alia isn't sure she can accept. As Red Feather's pack wages war against the vampyr Order controlling America, Alia struggles to reconcile her spirituality with violence, her heritage with her choices, her desire to help with her inability to change.

When a demon-possessed vampyr named Gualterio sets his sights on enslaving the pack, Alia must decide: Can she claim a heritage built on war? Can faith be a weapon when prayer has always been her shield? And what does it cost to become the monster your enemies fear?