Myrtle Beach Vampire Club: Book 1: Paradise Cove

Ferrand Chambrey is five hundred years old, extremely wealthy, and very good at not being noticed. For fifty years he has run his real estate empire from the top floor of Paradise Cove, his luxury Myrtle Beach resort, feeding discreetly on the city's endless flow of tourists and maintaining his careful distance from the world below. Only two people know what he is: Lucius Jones, his former-CIA bodyguard and the most competent man Ferrand has ever met, and Detective Bill Byrnes, who learned the truth years ago and has kept it in exchange for occasional, unofficial assistance.

Then everything changes at once.

Rikki Whip, the ageless rock star Ferrand turned into a vampire in 1987, arrives for his farewell concert and announces he is retiring to Myrtle Beach permanently. Detective Byrnes comes to Ferrand with evidence of a human trafficking ring and five missing women and no legal way to get close enough to prove it. And Camille Fontaine, a journalist from Charleston, checks into Paradise Cove with a corkboard, a research file that is by any standard excessive, and a quality of attention that has already gotten her closer to the truth than anyone has gotten in sixty years.

Paradise Cove is a vampire romance thriller set against the neon and ocean of the South Carolina coast. It is the story of a centuries-old immortal who has spent five hundred years perfecting his solitude and three weeks watching it quietly come apart, of a retired rock star who has decided that joy is the only point of immortality and is probably right, and of a journalist who understands that some things are worth knowing even if they are never worth publishing.

The Myrtle Beach Vampire Club is open. The building has room.

Paradise Cove is Book One of the Myrtle Beach Vampire Club series.