About Blood of the Damned
‘Death is all around you. Everywhere you turn, everyone you touch, even for you—death!’
Book one of the brand-new, epic Blood of the Dragon series.
“Game of Thrones” meets “Dracula.”
An oath of vengeance.
A brotherhood sworn to ritual and blood.
A darkness older than empires — and it’s waiting to feed.
Bulgaria during the bloody Crusades. Darius, heir of a noble house, sees a creature of the night slaughter his mother. Vowing to destroy the vampire, he trains blade and mind for a war he may never survive — while protecting and caring for his frail sister under the rule of a cruel and heartless uncle.
To the south, Sir George, son of a murdered lord, joins Vlad Dracula’s shadowy Order of the Dragon. He seeks the truth behind his father’s death, and vengeance against the enemy that stole his bloodline. But he uncovers a secret war more ancient and terrifying than the Ottoman invasion. A hidden vampire society with age-old myths and laws, plots and prejudice and vicious predators.
When Darius and Sir George’s paths collide, they’re drawn into a hellish underworld of Gothic castles, sacred orders, and creatures who see humans as pawns — or prey. To face the coming night, each must choose: duty to family, loyalty to brotherhood, or survival in a war where immortals play for kingdoms, and their very souls are at stake.
‘The storm and the wolves and the Ottomans, all, were the very least of their concerns. Would never again be of the slightest consequence.’
Perfect for readers of Stephen King, Anne Rice, Christopher Buehlman’s “Between Two Fires”, or Jay Kristoff’s “Empire of the Vampire”. “Blood of the Damned” delivers a gritty and unique undead origins — where superstition meets cold steel, and vengeance is paid in blood.
A slow-burn, sprawling hero’s quest, this is part one of a two-part alternative history saga, with brooding knights and forbidden love, and a very brutal coming of age.
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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.
Whatever the truth of being shot at in Ghana, kidnapped in Kazakhstan, being struck by lightning, whatever the lies behind his vampiric conversion in 1700’s Paris, go to his website and sign up for his newsletter to find out more about such outlandish stories, and about his epic and sprawling vampire saga. Ladies and gentlemen, mesdames et messieurs, I give you the Blood of the Dragon series.