Certain Dark Things

When a street kid picks up a beautiful, blood-drinking fugitive in the neon-soaked streets of Mexico City, the smartest thing he can do is walk away — but Domingo has never been particularly smart.

In Silvia Moreno-Garcia's pulse-pounding neo-noir horror fantasy, Mexico City stands as one of the last human-controlled metropolises in a world overrun by vampire clans. Domingo scrapes by collecting garbage and staying invisible, until the night Atl crashes into his life. A descendant of ancient Aztec blood drinkers, Atl is dangerous, cunning, and utterly contemptuous of the scrawny young man who keeps inserting himself into her business. She's running from a ruthless narco-vampire cartel that's already slaughtered her family, and she has absolutely no use for a starry-eyed human with a hero complex.

Except she's still here. And so is he.

As the body count rises and Mexico City's corrupt cops and ambitious crime lords close in from every direction, Atl's cold disdain for Domingo begins to crack in ways she can't afford to examine. He sees her — really sees her — beyond the fangs and the fury. For a vampire who's spent her entire life as a weapon, that might be the most terrifying thing of all.

Moreno-Garcia delivers a darkly seductive love story wrapped in razor-sharp teeth, where the greatest danger isn't the monster — it's falling for one.