The official movie novelization of the latest film in the blockbuster action/horror movie series, Underworldcoming to theaters in January 2009 from Sony Pictures! Centuries ago…two ageless and terrifying racesthe aristocratic vampires and the feral lycansare bound by a cruel, ancestral relationship between master and servant, and eternally separated by the ongoing, violent rivalry between their two species. But unknown to both nobility and enslaved alike, a clandestineand forbiddenaffair between the lycan servant Lucian and the beautiful vampire noblewoman Sonja burns brightly with an unbridled passion. Seeking to escape Sonjas tyrannical father, Viktor, and a future in which their love is considered an abomination, Lucian risks the ever-present machinations of the court and his very life to cast himself and his beloved free of their bonds…a daring tactic that will eventually give all lycans the courage to rise up against their oppressive vampire overlords. New alliances are forged even as the chains of slavery are broken…and all that Lucian and Sonja hold dear will be threatened with utter annihilation….