From Dark Beginnings - K. A. Hambly - Bog

Humans believe vampires are a myth, but unbeknown to them there are vampires masquerading as humans. For two hundred years, the last clan of vampires have lived in Scandinavia protecting the only thing which shields them from the sun, an ancient Egyptian relic called the ankh. Jyrki, the youngest member of the New Bloods clan has been chosen by an ancient prophet to protect the ankh from the human race, but after discovering his family have been murdered it propels him to venture into the world where he is forced to learn and control what he is to conceal his identity