John Steakley

The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.

13 years after witnessing her mother's murder by an unknown assailant, Amanda Post returns home to attend to her dying grandmother. When she dismisses the doctor, a local magistrate and an antique collector, all of whom seem to have their own sinister agendas, she becomes the target of anonymous threatening phone calls.