Steven van Niekerk

Vampire hunter Edgar Frog is destitute and nearly friendless, when the beautiful novelist Gwen Lieber offers him a small fortune to go on a hunt to save her brother from vampires using a new drug called the Thirst, which is a mixture of Ecstasy and infected blood. Realising he can't do this alone, Edgar turns to his brother, Alan Frog, to help him save Gwen's brother.

Kari Wührer stars as a witch, who turns the king's son Barek into an immortal berserker. The enmity between Barek and the witch extends to the present day in his attempts to become mortal again and break Odin's curse.