Thrones of Blood by Nancy Kilpatrick Book Tour and Giveaway :)
Revenge
of the Vampir King
Thrones
of Blood Book 1
by
Nancy Kilpatrick
Genre:
Adult Dark Fantasy, Paranormal Romance
Vampires
and humans are at war!
Moarte,
King of the Vampirii, is a prisoner of his Sapiens enemy. The
beautiful Sapiens Princess Valada, believing that Moarte killed her
mother, tortures him, even to the point of breaking the bones in his
wings so he cannot escape. She intends to incinerate him to ash in
sunlight, but Moarte escapes.
Moarte
hungers for revenge. When, through an act of betrayal, Valada is
captured by the vampirii, his first instinct is to drain her blood
and annihilate her. But he realizes he can get revenge in other ways,
using her as a tool to gain the upper hand in this conflict. But who
is manipulating whom? Both want revenge, and control of the other,
and Moarte wants to drink Valada's blood. Dark desires lead down a
path neither had envisioned, a threatening spiral that can destroy
empires.
Hunter
and hunted change places again and again in this novel of twisted,
violent passions. Seeds of deception are sown amidst love and hate,
loyalty and betrayal, obsession and indifference, in an erotic tale
of warring races, foes since the beginning of time, and two unlikely
adversaries aligning to battle a common enemy.
“Nancy
Kilpatrick infuses her vampires with the hot blood of life and erotic
passion. Vampires have never had it so good.”
F.
Paul Wilson
Author
of the Repairman Jack series, The
Keep, Midnight Mass
“Kilpatrick knows that great secret
of horror stories: that they are intensely personal!”
Chelsea
Quinn Yarbro
Author of The Saint Germain series
"Nancy
Kilpatrick's writing is both eloquent and erotic her stories seduce
the reader through the mutual attraction of dread and
desire."
Stephen Jones
Editor: Dark Terrors; Best
New Horror series
Revenge
of the Vampir King—Vol 1
Thrones
of Blood series
by
Nancy Kilpatrick
"King
Moarte," Wolfsbane said, "the Sapiens ruler offered you his
daughter in marriage to save his Kingdom, to bind our realm to his,
but really to save himself." "Liar!"
the black-haired mortal screamed through the bars where her wrists
were bound on either side of her. "My father would never
agree to such a deal. You're despicable, all of you vile, dead
things!" Her
dark eyes shot a fiery malevolence towards Wolfsbane, and her teeth
gnashed together twice as if she would bit through the wooden
doweling and disembowel him. But Wolfsbane was not watching her. He,
like everyone else in the room, was watching the King of the
Vampirii. Moarte
rose dangerously slowly, like the predator he knew himself to be. A
predator fixated on prey. His eyes were glued to the all-too-familiar
face of the Sapiens Princess Valada. Despite
all the torture her father had ordered, she
was the one who tried to murder Moarte. Ironically, her violence
provided him with the intense motivation necessary to find a means to
escape that realm and make his way home. It took nearly a moon's
cycle to walk over the high mountain because he could not fly and his
body was severely damaged. With little food but for the blood of the
small earth-bound creatures he could catch, starvation kept him from
recovering. He finally reached the vampirii stronghold near death, a
state requiring many months to reverse. And
now, before him, was one of his two enemies; it was a dream come
true.
Sacrifice
of the Hybrid Princess
Thrones
of Blood Book 2
Part
human, part vampir, the beautiful, stubborn, angry young Princess
Serene is a tormented hybrid, her days and nights controlled by her
overprotective parents. When they suddenly insist on an arranged
marriage, visions of a grim future in a loveless pairing with the
cold and dominating Wolfsbane drive Princess Serene into a desperate
escape.
But
instead of freedom, the young naive Princess rushes headlong into the
clutches of a human demon whose cruelty and violence threaten to
destroy her and her world. The entire vampirii nation is helpless to
rescue her, and war becomes a certainty. Rebellion will lead to many
deaths, including those she loves. But to endure brutality until she
can escape might be beyond her abilities.
Ultimately,
Wolfsbane, her detested bridegroom, is the one holding the key to
save her, if he can. And more, can she be saved?
***
"Nancy
Kilpatrick inhabits that shadow land of sensuality between terror and
pleasure; she can be creepy, seductive, bleak, exquisite and
terrifying—often all at once. She knows the intricacies of human
minds and bodies at war with themselves, and her stories bring you
into those battles in ways that make you think you've actually been
there because maybe you have."
—Thomas
Roche, author of The
Panama Laugh and
editor of the Noirotica series
"Nancy
Kilpatrick’s vampires have a distinctive bite all their
own."
—Nancy
A. Collins, author of Sunglasses
After Dark and In
the Blood
"Kilpatrick
is the pony express of horror. She's fast and furious and she always
delivers."
—Brian
Lumley, author of the Necroscope series
“I
loved Book 1 but I will admit that I loved Book 2 even more. The
characters were comfortably familiar but the threat level has been
escalated to nail-biting proportions. I devoured the book quickly; it
was difficult to put down, but I am used to this when in the hands of
a skilled author like Kilpatrick. She truly is a “vampire queen”:
a real specialist at telling vampire tales in new and engaging
ways.”
—Elaine
Pascal, reviewer
The
Horror Review
Abduction
of Two Rulers
Thrones
of Blood Book 3
A
conference between two species ends in disaster when Sapiens Queen
Blanka and the Vampir King Thanatos are treacherously seized and
imprisoned in a dungeon. War erupts as their jailers—an ancient
vampir and a traitorous Sapiens usurper—each plot to reign over all
of their own species. Desperate to end the conflict, the two
prisoners escape. En route to his stronghold, Thanatos disappears.
His vampir allies want to find him, but attack is imminent, making
defense the priority. Blanka knows the odds are against her surviving
an all-powerful, ancient being whose goal is destruction yet she is
determined to rescue Thanatos. The question that tortures her is:
does he still exist?
***
"Nancy
Kilpatrick is an audacious and insane writer of vampire fiction. I
wish a vamp would bite me so I could read her work forever!" -
Nancy Holder, NYT Bestselling Author, Mary Shelley Presents; Buffy
the Vampire Slayer novels
"Sit
back and let Nancy Kilpatrick guide you through this tortured world
of sex and passion, hunger and blood, damned souls and velvet
nights." - Karen E. Taylor, author The Vampire Legacy
series
"Horror
has never been so poetically exquisite before: move over Anne Rice
for Nancy Kilpatrick." - Robert W. Walker, author of Instinct
series books
Savagery
of the Rebel King
Thrones
of Blood Book 4
Necros,
the most rebellious of the vampir kings, has carried a burning hatred
for the one who forced him into this undead existence centuries ago.
Abused, betrayed, cheated, he trusts none of any species, especially
Guin, a dethroned mortal queen who appears out of nowhere and feeds
his paranoia, and his darkest fantasies. At best she attempts to
control him, at worst she tries to kill him. For some reason he does
not understand, Necros is compelled to let her live. But he believes
she is manipulative, and a liar; Guin sees him as brutal, stubborn,
impossible! Encounters turn ugly as violence, bitterness and haunting
memories drive both of them. Guin has her own agendas, and the more
she struggles to actualize them, the further away her goals recede. A
few vampirii endeavor to build a bridge between the two combatants,
but others with sinister plans are bent on hindering a truce. This
downward-spiralling dynamic reels towards a dire conclusion that
neither Necros nor Guin seem able to halt.
Savagery
of the Rebel King—Vol 4 in the exciting Thrones of Blood series—is
a fast-paced rollercoaster ride in a plot that twists and turns and
threatens to spin out of control. Readers will be glued to their
seats!
Nancy
Kilpatrick is an award-winning author. Her publishing credits include
22 novels, over 220 short stories, 6 collections of her stories, 1
graphic novel, 1 non-fiction book and, as well, she has edited 15
anthologies. She lives in Montreal and her work is published in the
U.S., Canada, the U.K., and has been translated into 8 languages.
These are the genres in which she has published: dark fantasy,
horror, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, erotica. Details can be
found on her website below.
Being one of those insane types who becomes obsessed about certain things, I’ve ended up with a library of vampire novels totaling over 2,500 volumes, which will be hard to move if I ever need to. I also own a hundred or so movie posters, games, dolls, toys, pamphlets, PhD dissertations, small press non-fiction offerings, movies, vinyl and CD music, poetry, jewelry, clothing, toys and much other memorabilia related to Bloodsuckers (and their less physical cousins who don’t want to sip our blood but do want to imbibe our energy, our dreams, our souls, or whatever else they desire which we possess). I’ve also written quite a bit on vampires. Currently, my 22nd novel has just been released in a vampire series for adults called “Thrones of Blood.” Vol 4: Savagery of the Rebel Kingfollows the bite trail of Vol 1: Revenge of the Vampir King; Vol 2: Sacrifice of the Hybrid Princess; Vol 3: Abduction of Two Rulers. Being awash in this crimson milieu has resulted in a bit of knowledge about these supernatural creatures, especially in terms of what’s been written, and what hasn’t. Which is why the great hoopla about the Twilight books and movies and others of that ilk has astounded me. Both the pro and anti positions are strong still and within those are factions like: Camp Edward (vampire) or Camp Joseph (werewolf)—pick your own fantasy guy. Twilight has been viewed as teen fodder, but it was not only young adults and not only females that adored the material. Rumor has it that moms also jumped on the coffin wagon. This sanitized vampire world spoke to budding hormones, since the human protagonist didn’t have sex until marriage, which came at the end of the series. Edward Cullen (approximate age 117 years), aka The Good Boyfriend, was always there for his still-in-high school human sweetheart Bella Swan. Attentive. Kind. Not pushy. Self-effacing to a fault; he would rather harm himself than harm her, abandon her instead of inflicting his questionable true self on his true love. Much tease, little payoff. But vampires have always had problems being accepted. Derived from legends and mythology with a few “true” accounts, in the past this creature was portrayed as horrific, violent, a fearsome, murderous, blood-drinking resuscitated corpse. The review in the Manchester Guardianon the 1897 release of Bram Stoker’s book is so scathing. Bela Lugosi played Dracula on stage and in 1931 on screen. While the movie was well received by the public, some of the female persuasion reputedly fainted en masse in the theater, The New Yorker’s negative review included, “there is no real illusion in the picture” and, “This whole vampire business falls pretty flat.” The Chicago Tribunedid not think the film as scary as its stage version, calling it “too obvious” and “its attempts to frighten too evident.” Despite that, The Tribune deigned to conclude it was “quite a satisfactory thriller.” All this to say that the vampire has floated side by side over millennia with us and that each incarnation has met with acceptance and rejection. Ultimately, the vampire, IMHO, is composed of many facets, which is why its popularity ebbs and then flows again at a re-envisioning, and why it likely will always remain the most popular supernatural. This monster is recognizable as us. Vampires were human and can still take human form. We’ve cleaned up the vampire to meet our exacting germ-obsessed 21st century standards. And that’s fine because it’s what the public demands. Each generation finds a new facet to engage with. Generation X had the most recent crack at redefining the vampire as a being that sparkles. A backlash resulted to return to the more terrifying Undead. We will have to wait to see what Gens Y or Z concoct. But if history means anything, it tells us that the vampire will not be staked into oblivion. If that was going to happen it would have already occurred. This dark archetype resonates in its myriad forms. Twilight is already part of the comprehensive history of the most intriguing of supernaturals.
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