This series blew me away!!
Expertly written, this vampire tale hooks it's fangs into you from the start. In book one, Morta Fox is a human who lives on the other side of the wall that was erected after the humans bombed most of civilization with what she thought was only one city remaining. She lived inside the wall with her mother (a prostitute for rich and powerful men) and two sisters until someone torched the house when she was away. She never had trust for her fellow humans and experienced ridicule from everyone including her own mother who called her Morta for being born a girl ,instead of a boy who could have given her things and open new doors for her, which is close to the name of death.
One night while Morta was minding her own business, she came across a monster that just finished tearing the throat out of the human. Luckily she had her daggers with her, made of silver - though she didn't know it at the time - and the monster leapt the wall to the other side. Not knowing who to turn to, she decided to make her way over the wall and look up one of her mother's former lovers who happened to be a leader in the city. She hoped by getting in touch with him she could warn them about the monsters that are making her way over the wall before it was too late and there were no citizens left. But once she got over the wall she was captured and brought into a laboratory where she was knocked out. When she came to, she found herself in the room with many other humans that were unconscious, and one of the very monsters that she was trying to one city away from, ripping the throats out of several doctors. She thought her life was going to and then she saw a death in the eyes of the monster but instead he ended up turning her and giving her his blood and she passed out.
When she came to she finally had an audience with the leader that she was trying to locate and she still had a heartbeat but she had a thirst for every human's blood that was in the room with her. She did not want to become like the monster that she saw so she decided to jump out the High story window and end her life. When she landed at the bottom with several broken bones she was very dismayed to find that her heart was still beating in her bones were healing themselves. She spends the next few days trying everything in her power to kill herself and her life as a monster but everything she tries fails and she soon realizes that there is no way that a vampire, which is what she has become, is able to off itself. She ends up coming across somebody that has been hunting the monster that turned her who is also a vampire and she strikes a deal that she will help lead this bounty Hunter to the vampire in exchange for him taking her life when they find her sire. The vampires goes by the name Hammer and he is the most beautiful thing that Morta has ever seen, even though she still thinks he is a monster as well.
Along the way Hammer teaches Morta how to feed without killing a human and other little things that her sire should have taught her before abandoning her. They also discover her bite is lethal for other vampires when they were defending themselves. This puts a huge target on her life.
Little do either she or Hammer realize that fate is a fickle bitch and the two end up falling for each other. Morta does not realize that the vow made between her and Hammer is binding and if it breaks, he will be sent to a hell dimension in 7 days for eternity. Once they finally admit to how they feel about one another they decide to give up looking for her master and decide to run away together. Just when Morta decides that she's going to have a little happiness in her life and truly live, they get ambushed by her sire's vampires and taken back into his custody, automatically fulfilling her end of the vow.
Book two is about Hammer and his time spent in the vampire hell, or the Red Dimension as all refer to it. He is offered a way to escape several years later but has to give up his memories to be free. When he returns to America, he is like a newborn vampire and everything that happened in his several hundred years of immortal living is gone in the blink of an eye, including his memory of Morta and ever other vampire friend and foe.
Book three is about a war that is brewing between a very powerful vampire and the rest of the human civilization. Some vampires choose to eradicate the humans or use them like cattle, while others want to protect them.
I know I went into quite a bit of detail on the first book but I didn't want to ruin the entire series....just give enough to convince other readers to give this series a try. There's plenty of surprises I have intentionally left out. I haven't had a strong connection for a couple in a series since Jeanine Frost's Cat and Bones. This book is definitely worth your time and free on Kindle Unlimited which is a huge deal.