Coffin Moon

From the author of the ‘exciting, suspenseful, horrifying’ (Stephen King) Fever House, a Vietnam Veteran and his adopted niece hunt - and are hunted by - the vampire that slaughtered their family.It's the winter of 1975, and Duane Minor, back home in Portland, Oregon after a tour in Vietnam, is struggling to quell his anger and keep his drinking in check, keep his young marriage intact, and keep the nightmares away.Things get even more complicated when his thirteen-year-old niece, Julia, is sent across the country to live with her Aunt Heidi and Uncle Duane after a tragedy.But slowly, carefully, guided by Heidi's love and patience, the three of them are building a family. Then Minor crosses the wrong man: John Varley, a criminal with a bloody history and a trail of bodies behind him.Varley, who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon.In an act of brutal retaliation, Varley kills Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia shot t