Book excerpt: Anatole, holy madman among vampires, has come to Paris to preach the word of God to the Damned. But he is not alone--the fanatics of the Cainite Heresy have descended on the city and claim that Caine himself walks among them. A battle ensues for the hearts and souls of the vampires displaced from Constantinople earlier in the brink of religious warfare, Anatole faces not only his fellow vampires, but the fires of the Inquisition.