When a vampire bites a Church of England priest in a small 1600s parish church in rural England, he expects to create a creature of darkness. Instead, he creates a problem.The priest - dry, fearless, and constitutionally incapable of making a fuss - approaches his new condition the way he approaches everything. Practically. He sees his physician. He finds a young chemist who identifies the pathogen. He switches to cow blood, courtesy of a local meat packing plant and a churchwarden...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a quiet English village, Father Gregory, a compassionate parish priest, begins to suffer from a baffling medical condition—his body rejects normal food, his blood oxygen drops to dangerous levels, and he develops an unsettling tolerance, then need, for blood. Guided by a pragmatic physician, his symptoms are treated as a rare metabolic disorder, grounded in real science rather than superstition.Gregory refuses to see himself as a monster...