Hammered (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #3)

by Kevin Hearne

“Do you dare speak his name?” I whispered softly. Leif rolled his eyes, acknowledging my mockery. “He is called Theophilus.” “Ha!” I barked, amused by the Greek roots of his name. “There’s an ancient vampire in Europe whose name means ‘loved by God’?”

there is no harmony to be found in the squabbles of men. It is found in the song of this river, in the taste of desert wind, and in the stark verses I see in the winter branches of cottonwoods.