Caleb Cade is a thief, a liar and a womaniser, and when he isn't, it's usually because he's too drunk to do anything else. He has spent twenty years running from his past only to find himself broken, friendless and haunted by his memories.

Returning home to London only because there is nowhere left to run, he searches for the man he might have been, but instead finds himself inexorably drawn into a dark world of monsters, the mad men who hunt them and the realisation that his redemption may be found in a vampire’s embrace.

A dark, twisting tale of love, loss and redemption, In the Absence of Light, weaves a compelling portrait of a deeply flawed man with an absorbing tale of his life, loves, failings, and the unknown world that exists in the shadows of the colourful, riotous mayhem of 18th-century London.