Blood and Honor
By Donald Yates
In 1943, a young American draftee named Nathan Cross reports for duty-quiet, pale, and oddly detached from the fear that grips every other recruit. His secret is older than the war itself: he's a vampire who has spent decades hiding in plain sight.
When he's sent to Europe with the U.S. Army, Nathan must fight not only the Axis powers but his own hunger. His plan is simple-survive, serve, and stay invisible. Yet on the battlefields of World War II, anonymity is a luxury few can afford. As the fighting intensifies, Nathan's true nature surfaces-first in flashes of unnatural strength, then in acts of quiet mercy no human could manage.
Beside him marches Tom Hensley, a farm-boy soldier who becomes both friend and conscience. Together they endure training, D-Day's inferno, the frozen slaughter of winter campaigns, and the moral ruin that follows victory. But when command begins to suspect what Nathan really is, his war turns from survival to redemption.
A gripping blend of military realism and gothic horror, Blood and Honor explores what it means to keep one's humanity in a world that has lost its own. From the beaches of Normandy to the rivers of Germany, one immortal soldier discovers that heroism and monstrosity are separated by a line as thin-and fragile-as blood.
