After their battle at Masada, the Neteru return to San Diego believing that they have eradicated the demon horde, unaware that the anti-Christ has survived their attack and daywalkers Fallon Nuit and Sebastian are creating master vampires.
Damali Richards is a woman-child in a world running with blood, depravity, and demons. Turned by her lover, Carlos Rivera, and brought back again, Damali clings to the one measure of purity that was handed down to her through generations of the wise, gifted, and strong. Now, through the power of magic, through the ache of desire and the touch of her lover, Damali is on a journey from the streets of Philadelphia to the ancient earth of Africa. With a small army, Carlos, and her own mad skills, she might just save the world from the demon seductress who wants her and her fiath obliterated--before Armageddon begins.
A battle is brewing in the Underworld and at the centre of it all is Damali Richards. Damali is a vampire huntress, but not just any huntress - she is the Millenium: a vampire huntress so powerful the vampire world is prepared to go to war over who should possess her. Fallon Nuit, a rogue vampire, in league with demons, is determined to claim her but then an ex-lover turned vampire enters the fray. But Damali is not about to let anyone, or anything, fight over her without having her own say.
A Neteru - a hunter or a huntress - is born every thousand years to lead the Warriors of Light as they fight agaisnt the dark realms. Damali Richards lives in modern day L.A. and she is the huntress. And she's been to hell and back. Literally. A war between the Vampires should have been good for mankind but Damali believes she has lost her vampire lover Carlos in the carnage. And then comes word of a spree of horrific killings in Brazil. The war between the vampires has opened a door from the darker realms of hell and something has come through ...
She is a woman who lives between pleasure and pain - the pure, scintillating pleasure of the flesh and the kind of pain that has rocked the world and left it strewn with chaos set to a hip-hop beat. Her name is Damali Richards. And when she makes love to a master vampire, it changes everything in a struggle between good and evil - with the future of humanity hanging in the balance ...THE BITTEN In L.A. Banks' astounding new VAMPIRE HUNTRESS novel, an unforgettable scene of seduction touches off a violent race around the world - and into a realm beneath us. For Damali, once a pawn, has been given a new, pulsating power of her own - having been bitten by lover and vampire extraordinaire Carlos Rivera. Between them, they know how high the stakes have risen. A powerful lord of darkness has hijacked a mystical key containing the blood of Christ. And for a world where blood runs like a river, one drop of this blood will be the end ...
A Vampire Huntress is born every thousand years - someone to lead the Warriors of Light as they fight against the Dark Realms. Damali Richards, born on to the streets of L.A., brought up in the Projects, is our Huntress. The Hunters and the Vampires are fighting in hell and on our streets and Damali will lead the Hunters in the Final War. L.A. Banks' novels are steeped in both vampire lore and hip-hop culture and feature a vivid cast of black heroines and heroes. This is dark fantasy for the hip-hop generation.