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In 1639, behind the walls of a secluded Buckinghamshire manor, twenty-one women give birth beneath the gaze of a vampire duke and the cruellest science the age can devise. Only eleven of the children seem human. The rest are Chimera: engineered to stalk in the daylight, their lords can never touch. This is the story of the one who survives, the boy they name Jack, dead for seven minutes and returned with eyes that already know too much. Four centuries on, the world still believes vampires fear the sun. Jack knows better. He was forged to own it. The Chimera Cycle A dark, biological re-imagining of the vampire myth, where immortality is merely the longest war between predator and prey, and the final battleground is free will itself.