Genre: Horror/Dark Fantasy
Summary: Coming of age should never be this brutal.
A bitter winter night during medieval Europeʼs bloody Crusades, the slaying of anoblewoman by a dreaded vampire sends one young man on a deadly hunt for
vengeance.
The torture of a lord by the Ottoman enemy encourages another young man to
join Vlad Draculaʼs secretive Order of the Dragon in search of answers.
And again, vengeance.
Their lives defending their country against the Ottoman invaders will be changed
forever. But are they ready to risk everything? With deaths getting closer, and
loved ones under threat, their separate searches lead them both down into the
abyss, and the answers they seek come at a hefty price. And when their paths
collide, thereʼs sure to be bloodshed.
Or worse. Damnation!
Such perilous revenge barely hints at the complex vampire underworld about to
be unleashed.
Book one of the epic new Blood of the Dragon series. Part one of a two-part
story.
If you like medieval vampire thrillers, alternative history and undead origins, then
youʼll love Antony J.Stantonʼs Gothic race against time.
Author Bio: Antony J. Stanton was born in a Parisian slum in the 1700’s. He worked the docks at the port of Le Havre before an incident with a jealous ship-owner’s wife saw him hounded by hired thugs. If not for the intervention of a beguiling vampiress who, for her own dark reasons, took an interest in Stanton, he’d no doubt have been lynched. In saving him, the vampiress turned Stanton into a foul blood-sucker, and he soon found himself preying on those who would surely have seen him dead.
Being over two hundred years old, it’s not surprising he’s now almost bald, and his friends have always said his clothes are somewhat dated. He spent the past two centuries living in draughty, disused rooms of crumbling French châteaux and old English mansions, feeding off rats and ageing aristocrats, and researching the history of his night-walking fellows. And now, dear reader, over a century since Bram Stoker raised public awareness of the vampire in his survival manual—wrongly mistaken for fiction—it’s time for Stanton to publish the true account of his adopted species and set the record straight.
Or perhaps he just has a vivid imagination. Perhaps the vampire genre is long overdue a fresh lease of life, a new origins story, an epic and sprawling plot across countries and continents and millennia, a thrilling story of a complex underground society with their own rules and myths, rivalries and vendettas, living alongside and meddling with the affairs of humanity.
And perhaps Antony J. Stanton actually lives in London with wife and dog, where he enjoys writing gripping, multi-charactered vampire sagas—think “Game of Thrones” meets “Dracula”. Perhaps he has already written a post-apocalyptic vampire/zombie horror trilogy that rose to Amazon’s #3 for genre. But sometimes, reality is as incredible as fiction—almost.
Social Media links:
Website: https://antonyjstanton.com/
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