Book excerpt: Frontiers in Cardiovascular Drug Discovery is an eBook series devoted to publishing the latest advances in cardiovascular drug design and discovery. Each volume brings reviews on the biochemistry, in-silico drug design, combinatorial chemistry, high-throughput screening, drug targets, recent important patents, and structure-activity relationships of molecules used in cardiovascular therapy. The eBook series should prove to be of great interest to all medicinal chemists and pharmaceutical scientists involved in preclinical and clinical research in cardiology. The third volume of the series covers the following topics: - P2Y12 receptor agonists -Heart failure pharmacotherapy -Vasopressin and the cardiovascular system -Cerebral small vessel disease -Complement blocking therapeutic strategies -New antiplatelet and anticoagulating agents for gastrointestinal treatments