Desmond Series by Ulysses Grant Dietz, Emilie Pitt, Jeffrey Apgar

Desmond Beckwith is not a happy man. A financial wizard with an international investment empire, he's also in love with his lifelong-but-straight friend Roger. At forty-five, in spite of a circle of supportive friends and an elegant New York townhouse full of antiques, he feels isolated and cut off from humankind. And with good reason. Desmond Beckwith is a two-hundred-fifty-year-old vampire... moreDesmond Beckwith is not a happy man. A financial wizard with an international investment empire, he's also in love with his lifelong-but-straight friend Roger. At forty-five, in spite of a circle of supportive friends and an elegant New York townhouse full of antiques, he feels isolated and cut off from humankind. And with good reason. Desmond Beckwith is a two-hundred-fifty-year-old vampire. For nearly two centuries he has lived in New York, looking vainly for love and seeking to satisfy his twin thirsts for blood and sex in those places where men of his kind have always met to find release and solace. Into Desmond's sheltered, lonely world stumbles Tony Chapman, an unemployed museum curator, down on his luck and one step away from being out on the streets. Brutalized by the unforgiving nature of New York City, Tony is on the edge of despair when he meets this darkly handsome older man in the smoky dimness of a Greenwich Village bar. To their mutual astonishment, Tony proceeds to turn Desmond's protected little world on its head, and to unlock pieces of Desmond's past lives and loves that were deeply buried in Desmond's memory. less

In this haunting first novel, Ulysses G. Dietz explores a dark world of men who are condemned to outlive their friends and lovers, men who never age, men who search throughout time for love and acceptance but more often find rejection, isolation, and, ultimately, tragedy: the world of vampires. Nothing unsettling has happened to Desmond Beckwith in hundreds of years... moreIn this haunting first novel, Ulysses G. Dietz explores a dark world of men who are condemned to outlive their friends and lovers, men who never age, men who search throughout time for love and acceptance but more often find rejection, isolation, and, ultimately, tragedy: the world of vampires. Nothing unsettling has happened to Desmond Beckwith in hundreds of years. And then suddenly he falls in love with a 24-year-old man and must struggle with whether to come out to his lover as being one of the undead. This welcome addition to the canon of vampire literature will leave readers with little doubt that there are indeed vampires living -- and loving -- among us. less