Black Dagger Brotherhood The Black Dagger Brotherhood (BDB) is an ongoing paranormal romance series of novels by the writer J. R. Ward. The BDB is a society of the strongest and fiercest fighters in the vampire race. The Brothers (in general) are bred from the purest blooded vampires to fight against the Lessening Society - A society of soulless and undead humans, created by the Omega in order to push the vampire race to its extinction - and protect the king, Wrath son of Wrath, and his throne. The series contains fourteen novels for now (and some side stories). The first novels is Dark Lover. It's a story about Wrath, the unascended vampire king, the last pure-blood vampire on the planet and the strongest fighter among the Brothers, and Beth, a half-human about to enter her transition and turn to a vampire and who doesn't know about her half-vampire nature. The second book, Lover Eternal, is about the Brother Rhage who was cursed by the Scribe Virgin (the goddess who created the vampire race) to share his body with a monster for the two hundred years and Mary, a human girl with terminal cancer.