Natalia has protected the Russian Royal family for nearly a century, even before she became a vampire. But the supernatural powers she's relied on reach a stalemate when Captain Yuri Milassoviech is taken prisoner by the Taliban. She must join America's new top-secret anti-terrorist group, the Vamp Squad, in order to save him. As the Squad gets closer to the stronghold where Yuri is being held, Natalia battles strange new feelings that surface along with troubling new powers. Frustrated at being forced to hide his true lineage, Yuri joins the Russian Federation Army to escape his smothering family and isolation in Siberia. Betrayed by those he trusted, Yuri now lies in a Taliban cave awaiting certain death. In his fevered dreams, a beautiful Dark Angel searches for him. Is she Life, or Death, or something worse? Join Miriam Matthews and her group of amazing, sexy vampires as they take on the Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIL in this first book in the Vamp Squad Series; Strange Beginnings.