Alicia Ryan has degrees in International Relations, National Security, and law. She lives in Northern California and is a practicing attorney. In addition to writing fiction, I am a practicing attorney. She enjoys painting, travel, restaurants, bad monster movies, and hanging out with her husband and her dog. You can watch a video trailer for The First Vampire at her 
The First Vampire by Alicia Ryan
I am a big fan of alternate history books and urban fantasy. Alicia Ryan has done a more than adequate job of blending the two into a fun book. The First Vampire is a story based on the Biblical Samson and his seductress/destroyer Delilah. Ryan weaves urban fantasy into the culmination of a millennia long search by Samson to have his final revenge.
The First Vampire takes elements of alternate history to explain how vampirism came to be through a fluke event.
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