Certain Dark Things
by Silvia Garcia-Moreno
Buy on Amazon"Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Here in the city, heavily policed to keep the creatures of the night at bay, Domingo is another trash-picking street kid, just hoping to make enough to survive. Then he meets Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers. Domingo is smitten. He clings to her like a barnacle until Atl relents and decides to let him stick around. But Atl's problems--Nick and Rodrigo--have come to find her. When they start to raise the body count in the city, it attracts the attention of police officers, local crime bosses, and the vampire community"--
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"In Mexico, local drug-dealing vampire gangs that trace their lineage back to the Aztecs clash with European newcomers — everywhere but Mexico City, where human gangs have declared a vampire-free zone. Living on the margins of this world is Domingo, a 17-year-old garbage collector with a heart of gold, whose vampire comics don’t prepare him for the real thing. When he meets Atl, a vampire woman being hunted by a rival gang, he gets swept up in a whirlwind of blood debts and danger. Fast-paced and full of gorgeous characters, this is urban fantasy with emphasis on the urban: Mexico City is as much a character as the vampires."
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