Twilight Healer?. step into an alternate reality?.

"Kenworthy always lived for the hunt, and Hades can't take anymore." The gentle way Elliott spoke reminded Alex of a doctor breaking bad news to a favorite patient. "Have you and your friend Leslie seen the bats?"

Alex nodded, licking his lips. A sense of foreboding ground into the pit of his stomach. "What will he do to us?"

"Hades plans to destroy all vampires. When he attacks, expect a slow, agonizing death."

"No...I don't want to believe that." Alex slacked his dry tongue over drier lips. "You and I lived over a century, but he must spare Leslie. Her father needs her, and she wants..."

"Hades won't care." Elliott waved his hands. "He'll see Leslie as another vampire following in Kenworthy's footsteps."

"I should have known." Alex stood up without touching Hades' portrait. "Can Hades find us in the New World?"

"He'll find you no matter where you go." Elliott's words seemed to drop into the air like rocks into mud. "His bats will follow your scent. I don't know when or how he'll attack. Hades keeps his timetables secret."