Penance

Theirs was an unholy union. He was the genetic mistake that the mother tried to protect.

Cîteaux Abbey provided sanctuary, the Abbot provided tutoring, and boy grew to manhood in the shelter of monastic order. For nine hundred years his needs, his excesses, his self-indulgences provided every reason to embrace the solitude of his calling.

When a band of fanatical weres seek to use his powers against his own kind, the Vampyr monk faces an unholy choice: sacrifice the one thing he has grown to care about or finally reveal to the world the secret he has hidden for centuries.