Vampire Federation Books in Order

The Vampire Federation novels take Scott Mariani’s love of fast, contemporary thrillers and plug it into a dark supernatural setting. Instead of secret government agencies and special forces units, these books imagine a global vampire organisation struggling to control its own kind in the modern world.

For centuries, vampires have stalked humans from the shadows, living by ancient customs. In the information age, that old way of operating has become far too risky. To survive, the most forward‑thinking elders create the Vampire Federation, a worldwide structure with strict laws and its own intelligence arm, the Vampire Intelligence Agency. Agents like Alex Bishop are authorised to hunt down and eliminate rogue vampires who endanger the secrecy of the race.

The first book, Uprising, throws that fragile order into chaos. A charismatic traditionalist, Gabriel Stone, rejects the Federation’s rules and leads a violent revolt. On the human side, Detective Inspector Joel Solomon is drawn into the conflict when a ritual murder in the English countryside hints that vampires are more than just stories. Joel has long suspected they were real. Now he has proof, and a front‑row seat at the war tearing their world open.

The series alternates between Alex’s point of view inside vampire politics and Joel’s on the human side of the line. Their reluctant partnership gives the books an energy that feels part horror, part action thriller and part police procedural. As attacks spread across cities like London, Venice and beyond, questions about loyalty, faith and what it means to be a monster sit underneath the chase scenes and fight sequences.

In the follow‑up, The Cross, the focus shifts to an artefact known as the Cross of Ardaich, a relic thought destroyed in a previous conflict. Rumours of its survival draw in old enemies and new, including a particularly disturbing human killer recruited by Stone’s faction. Alex and Joel find themselves racing not just to stop individual murders but to prevent a device with world‑ending potential from falling into the wrong hands.

Although there are only two volumes so far, the Vampire Federation books build a vivid world of codes, councils and long‑nursed grudges. Mariani leans into the idea of vampires as organised, rule‑bound and often at odds with one another, rather than treating them purely as solitary predators.

For readers who enjoy the pace and structure of his Ben Hope novels but are open to a streak of horror, this series offers something familiar yet different: secret wars, covert missions and moral dilemmas, only this time some of the agents do their work by night and can hear the blood beating in every human vein.