New Novel Presents to Readers the Concept of Human Vampirism

After completing the "DNR Trilogy," author Don W. Hill, M.D was not initially inclined to yet again pick up pen and paper to craft a new work of fiction. However, when co-author Tom Cavaretta presented a fundamentally challenging query as to whether or not human vampirism was theoretically possible, Hill was compelled to get on board with the "Vampiro" series.

The first of the serial fiction, "Vampiro - Volume I: The Night Crawler Protocol" (published by Archway Publishing), presents the concept of human vampirism as a horizontally transmissible infectious disease. "If, after all, vampirism is well recognized in a humble lesser mammal commonly known as the vampire bat, could vampirism also possibly appear as a consequence to an infectious disease process in higher primates?" the authors ponder.

After a foolish man commits an egregious violation during a spiritual cleansing ritual known as the Huevo Limpia ceremony, the malignant disease of human vampirism is reincarnated in the lower Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico after several years of dormancy. A curandera (folk healer) named Lorena is forced to flee across the Mexican border with a 5-year-old named Nathan who is in peril. Nathan's father, Blake Barker, is becoming a lethal vampire and the boy is now hunted - as is Lorena when she takes the child into her care and fights the outbreak destined to destroy her home and people.

In this work of fiction, vampirism is presented as an unfortunate disease process, not as an evil per se. Those infected with the disease in the "Vampiro" series are presented as characters who, like all people, demonstrate good and bad behavior, bravery and fear. For more details, readers may visit https://www.amazon.com/Vampiro-I-Night-Crawler-Protocol/dp/1480870218.

"Vampiro"
By Don W. Hill, M.D. and Tom Cavaretta
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 308 pages | ISBN 9781480870208
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 308 pages | ISBN 9781480870215
E-Book | 308 pages | ISBN 9781480870192
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the Author
A native of Houston, Don W. Hill, M.D., FACP graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, in 1978. After completing his medical school training at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1982, Hill did his postgraduate training in internal medicine, hematology and oncology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1987. A fellow of the American College of Physicians, Hill is a published scholar but "Vampiro" is only his second attempt at serial fiction after completing three volumes of "The DNR Trilogy."

A native of New York City, Tom Cavaretta moved to El Paso, Texas, with his family when he was only 2 years old. The coauthor the "Vampiro" series learned to love the desert and he became an avid outdoor sportsman before graduating with a BBS in marketing from the University of Texas in Austin. After completing his undergraduate work, Cavaretta returned to the southwest desert and graduated with an MBA from the University of Texas at El Paso. Currently married with two sons and now living in Phoenix, Arizona, this co-author has worked in the complex technological field of hematology and oncology biotherapeutics for more than a quarter of a century.

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