Valantinus: Blood Brothers.

(Excerpt)

There was a mass in progress. That woman’s voice that I so enjoyed floated out of the cathedral. Her message was to believe in God and He would protect them from all evil. Yet, there we stood outside His mansion, quite able to devour these devoted parishioners as they came out of the church. Good and evil, good and evil. They always went hand in hand. The priest and the blood drinker. Ha! Indeed.

I scanned at the assembly awaiting my next command. They wore dark cloaks, upon which the droplets of mist glittered in the torch lights. “You all know where they live, those who are under fifteen hundred years of age. Disperse now and slay them. Collect their hearts. Once they are all slain go down into the basement of the cathedral after the Mass is over. Lift the stones from the floors and bury their hearts that we may ne’er hear from them again.”

Hrihor muttered quietly, “it has been coming for ages, this brutal conclusion.”

“They have earned this. Go now and get it done quickly. Once their hearts are buried continue on with your mission as discussed earlier.”

The Originals crossed the street, their cloaks flapping in the strong winds, and their backs erect. Creatures of dignity. So many Originals in one place, so much power compressed into those otherworldly bodies striding through the fog with so much authority. I had not seen such a gathering of Originals since we had first reunited eighteen years after our creation.

Deeply into the desert we had wandered, two thousand seven hundred and ninety-one of us. We had stopped a distance from Khufu’s great pyramid, far away from the city of Hwt-ka-Ptah, where we had all been born and raised, and where we had all died when the great black cloud had swallowed the sun. There in the desert I had passed onto the Men and Women of Naja Haje, the Covenants entrusted to me. There in the desert a system was devised so that we could keep track of our numbers, and the Secret Society of the Naja Haje was born. We had dispersed afterward to continue on with our lives, not knowing in our newness that the day would come when most of us would be gone. We had not known that there would come a time when the younger generations would completely disregard the Covenants and say that the story of our creation was a myth. And now, of the two thousand, seven hundred and ninety-one, this was all that we had left--two hundred and sixteen.
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***Vampires for Grown-ups***

 

 

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 25, 2010

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The vampire you'd love to hate but can't.

"Valantinus is by no means the typical vampire. He is cold-blooded, calculating and one of the most interesting and compelling vampire creations since Blade.
" Read the full review at swampland.com

Michael Buffalo Smith. Swampland.com.
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Title: Valantinus
ISBN # 978-0-9732550-4-1

Something to look forward to:

What happened between the time of their creation and the Fall of the Naja Haje in 1452?
The Prequel, "Maya" will tell you.

What happened after the Fall of the Naja Haje?
"Michel," the Sequel, will fill in the blanks.



SNEEK PEEK!

Back Cover Blurb
Prologue

Chapter 1
"The Covenants"

Reviews:

"Everything is so vivid, the Covenants, mind-blowing. It reads like a movie...congrats!"

Don Wallace, Actor, Scriptwriter, Director

"Usually, when I read fiction I may suspend belief, but I can't help using my scientific background to scoff at the improbability of the motivations, behaviour and physiology of these mythical beasts…and yet, I couldn’t help nodding in assent when she explains why and how these vampires function, breed, and survive. It just makes sense.”

William Holstein, M.D., Ph.D, FRCPath. U.K.

"Bloody, evil...sexy. I can see it as a movie."

Anthony Bodden, Co-scriptwriter, cult classic film, "Belly."
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