These Our Revels

He has walked the night beat for centuries. He is one of the finest homicide detectives in Toronto. But Nick Knight wishes he could shed the curse of his true calling. The burn of the thirst. The thrill of the kill. The endless nights longing to be human...and not a vampire.

It's midsummer of 1599, and the dashing Nicholas Chevalier is having the time of his immortal life, acting in the company of his friend Will Shakespeare. But pretending to be human—on stage and off—will have devastating effects.

A tortured woman involved with the famous playwright forces Nick to question his vampire life in a way that will affect everyone around him, mortal and immortal. And, in another part of the city, a ship has landed, bringing one Javier Vachon, and his new companion Screed, whose clumsy deeds threaten to reveal the vampire community to the world...