Piperka

A cabal of vampires begins recruiting new members for mysterious reasons. Jack Ballard is recruited by an older man named Demetri, a childhood friend. During a strange game Jack is painfully, and terrifyingly turned into a vampire, but by the rules of the game is not 'fathered' by Demetri, but to a vampire he just made named Vitus. Jack goes on to try to figure out how to live in this strange undead form, and all the moral implications of drinking blood, as well as to learn about the 'Circle' of vampires, and tries to figure out what has prompted them to begin creating new vampires after hundreds of years.