Status Updates From Moon (Marie Laveau Mystery #2)

This African vampire is compared to Lesat (Anne Rice's vamp), but as I hear its history, sounds like a Blackula (70s movie) meets Scorpion King (the more blood drained from victims, he forms into a vessel--man). He lives in the past, then present, from slavery to recent day, this person travels in time, space, and still curious how he comes into existence.