In a post-apocalyptic “now” where ancient magic and technology collide, a wanderer must escape a vast concentration camp run by vampires.In 1972, the secret and hidden creatures of the night threw off their centuries-long masquerade, sending the world on a new and apocalyptic course. Twenty years later, humanity and civilisation survive in pockets, but in the New Mexico desert a consortium of vampires and their ghoul servants have converted a hydro-electricity plant and dam into a farm for human beings. Our hero is Day, wanderer and survivor of a Nebraskan commune set up before the world went to Hell. Trapped on the farm with the prospect of a slow and painful death feeding the terrible hunger of the ghouls' nocturnal masters, Day must overcome his own qualms about the savage he has become not only to survive and escape, but to free his love Kvelda and the thousands of other people trapped like cattle waiting to die.