A young soldier, Heinrich Barmat is the victim of circumstance as he realizes more than a bullet was aiming to kill him. Unable to avoid being turned into a vampire, providence gives him the means to escape certain extinction. He isn't your typical blood sucking vampire. His world is as hot-blooded and complicated as he is. In his efforts to survive, he confronts more evil than the hell of his condition. Highway death is the backdrop, as diverse souls merge when the need for coursing blood controls the Arizona desert. From the beginning, encounters conspire and alter his path but none so completely as when Heinrich kidnaps a college student returning after his father's death turning his dusty tomb into a beacon in this dark world.