It is the early spring of 1860. The United States is in turmoil, with New England abolitionists and Southern fire-eaters spewing hateful rhetoric back and forth across the Mason Dixon Line. In the midst of this ominous backdrop, an idealistic Pennsylvania college student is sent to a remote Louisiana plantation named Etenel Babako to conduct scientific field tests.
Despite portents of danger upon his arrival, John Larson remains blissfully unaware his grave danger. The Cajun name of the plantation translates as Eternal Feast, and John finds out too late that that the estate's strange, reclusive owner is actually a vampire. A vicious attack and sudden transformation of this young man into a hellish predator binds him against his will to the plantation unless he can finally discover his one true "passion," that lone vestige of humanity which will free him from his eternal servitude.
A sinister plot hatched by the Master Vampire and estate owner, Jacques Dumaine, works to perfection, as a staged accidental death of the young man leaves John mourned and quickly forgotten. Time passes quietly for John in his surreal new life of slaves, sugar cane, Spanish moss, and recurring blood lust. Only a chance encounter with the outside world allows him to learn of the Civil War that has been raging for over 2 years.
It is at that fateful moment John discovers that HIS passion is his undying love for the Union. It allows him to break free of the dominating restraints of his Master and the plantation. He swiftly leaves Louisiana with a daring plan that would put his supernatural powers to good use. Under the cover of night, he works his way back up North to secretly disable high ranking Confederate Generals in the hope that siphoning their blood will result in needless battlefield casualties and strategic mistakes.
John eventually overtakes the invading Army of Northern Virginia in his home state of Pennsylvania, near the town of Gettysburg. One by one, with an equal combination of skill and luck, he isolates and attacks members of the Rebel high command, including Commanding General Robert E. Lee himself.
But John finds himself not only the hunter, but also the hunted. The Freemasons, the vampires' arch enemy, detect his presence and dispatch agents sworn to his destruction. Furthermore, he must come to grips with a being even more powerful than any vampire-the dreaded specter of Death itself!
Night creatures do exist; even more disturbing is the fact that this vampire's actions become interwoven with real Civil War era people, timelines, battle sequences, and geographic locations. The question then becomes: Could this macabre slice of alternative history have actually happened?