will look over their shoulders at the dark should they choose the life of a hard core criminal. I developed the character of Monsignor John O'Connor using a variety of sources. Even though there is scandal in the Catholic Church on an almost daily basis, there are still, in my opinion, some very devout priests who are holy men. Monsignor George Cummings was both our Parish Priest at Epiphany Catholic Church in Venice Florida and the director of Good Council Camp in Inverness, both of which I attended as a child. Father Cummings was a good man, but also a rugged outdoorsman who used to hunt in Alaska every year. I always wondered why he didn't make Bishop. So I made my priest someone who had been a Bishop and stepped down to become a vampire hunter. In my opinion anyone in the clergy who turns their back on power to follow a calling is holy, not just in the trappings of the church they carry with them, but their very persons. The priest seeks to destroy the woman who is a mockery of his savior, having come back from the dead after three days in the Earth. DeFalco, the FBI agent, is of course modeled after Fox Mulder from the X-files, and in fact there is a reference in the book to that agent. He has seen something he cannot really believe, and has developed unshakable convictions because of it. The agency also knows something supernatural is afoot, but