They took his blood. They took half his soul. But they couldn’t take the cop.

LAPD Detective Kel Langston has spent his career hunting serial killers. He knows their patterns, their triggers, their lies. What he doesn’t know is that the worst of them aren’t human.

They’re called Takers. They drink blood. They consume souls. And when Kel is ambushed in a dark alley and left for dead, he doesn’t die.

He changes.

Now he’s a Half-Turn: stronger than any human, faster than he ever imagined, with senses that pierce the night like a blade. But the hunger is unbearable. The Fever is relentless. And the ancient Taker who sired him, a monster named Francisco, isn’t finished with Kel yet.

As bodies start appearing across Los Angeles, each one marked with a cryptic calling card, Kel realizes the truth: Francisco is leaving him a trail. A taunt. An invitation.

The only person who can help is a woman named Marta, a Half-Turn who’s survived for centuries by staying invisible. She teaches Kel to control his appetite, to hide his fangs, to walk the line between predator and prey.

But when Marta is murdered, Kel is left with nothing but rage, a stolen flash drive, and the scent of cinnamon that clings to a mysterious Taker named Ray, an enemy who claims he wants to help.

Kel doesn’t trust him. He can’t afford to.

But the blood doesn’t lie. The soul doesn’t forget. And the bond forming between them is something neither of them understands.

The hunt begins in TAKERS, Book One of the award-winning urban fantasy series. For readers who like their vampires hungry, their heroes complicated, and their romance built on blood, soul, and the bonds that refuse to break.