Hill, Will

Moonbeam, seventeen, survives a devastating confrontation between government forces and the cult she grew up in, but will need a lot of help to heal mentally, emotionally, and physically.

Jamie Carpenter, dragged into the government's secret agency, Department 19, following his mother's kidnapping, is glad to see they have the tools he needs to find her and kill the vampires that are out to get him, but unfortunately Department 19 is about to face a foe it cannot defeat.

Moonbeam, seventeen, survives a devastating confrontation between government forces and the cult she grew up in, but will need a lot of help to heal mentally, emotionally, and physically.

"The brave men and women of Department 19 have fought Dracula at every turn, but now Zero Hour has passed and the ancient vampire is at full strength. Inside Department 19, the Operators are exhausted and fractured. Jamie, Larissa, Matt and Kate are each struggling with their own demons. When the friends need each other most, they are further apart than ever. Outside the Department, the world reels from the revelation that vampires are real. Violence and paranoia spread around the globe and, when it finally comes, Dracula's opening move is more vicious than anyone could have imagined"--Amazon.com.

When an unexpected source brings a ray of hope to Department 19's battle against the forces of evil, Jamie and Larissa are sent on a dangerous mission to find the one thing that could turn back the darkness for good.

Department 19 has fought Dracula at every turn, but Zero Hour has passed and the vampire is at full strength.

Department 19 operator Jamie Carpenter trains a new squad, while an escapee from a maximum security prison with a connection to the darkest moment in the department's history sets out to expose the existence of vampires to the public.

After his mother is kidnapped, Jamie Carpenter is brought into Department 19, an ultra-secret agency, to kill the vampires who want him dead, but there is more at stake than Department 19 or Jamie thought.