(THE DOWNFALL OF US ALL, #1)

Forced into exile after being branded five years ago, twenty-year-old Dante Alonso Hidalgo comes back to Sempiternal hellbent on assassinating the man responsible: the current, vampire President and his older brother, Xavier Alonso Hidalgo.

His first night back home, Dante learns that Xavier is now the acting host of The Dragnet Games—an annual competition where humans are hunted, and all the survivors are then granted ascension into the ruling, vampire class should they survive. Pivoting from his original plan to kill Xavier, Dante volunteers for the month-long reaping. There, he unearths a potential, government conspiracy that not only implicates the nation’s entire governance, but also the AI-powered technologies that now see Sempiternal society turn properly on its axis.

But, before Xavier or The Dragnet Games kill him first, Dante must either settle the score between himself and his older brother, or expose the truth behind his governance for a greater good. Because one means following in the footsteps of the cruel, vindictive man who hurt him prior, and the other means finally becoming the good, just man he has always been convinced he never could be.

Trigger Warnings

• Depression, Suicide, and Self-Harm
• Past Childhood Emotional, Physical, Sexual Abuse
• Victim Blaming, Domestic Violence, Past Grooming
• Torture, Murder, and Violence
• Mentions, Discussions, and Consuming of Blood
• Past Parental Abuse, Neglect, and Abandonment