In the Year of Our Lord 1774, months before the American Revolution, eight-year-old Virgil Waldrip became the first person in human history to survive a vampire attack that had taken his entire family. In adulthood, he would become the head of a company called United Lumber, the North American branch of a Vatican-backed entity that funds vampire hunters throughout the world. The childhood attack had a significant side effect. At the time of this tale, Virgil Waldrip is over two hundred and fifty years old