These aren’t the vampires you know.
When the Nash’terel were hunted nearly to extinction, they fled to a distant world: Earth. Using their powers of shapeshifting, they blended in with the human population, and with their thirst for life essence, the hunted became the hunters. While the older generation remain in the shadows, associating only with other Nash’terel, their Earthborn offspring are more adventurous.
Young Bilyash is tired of hiding and ready to follow his dream into the film industry. He’s abandoned the traditional ways of his people and trained as a makeup artist, but two things stand in his way: assassins from the former home world, and Angie Fiore. Angie is unlike any human Bilyash has met, overflowing with the purest life essence he’s ever encountered. When assassins on the hunt for Nash’terel catch up with him, both their lives are put in danger, and Bilyash and Angie are forced to run.
Bilyash’s uncle and his contacts can help them go underground, but it won’t stop these killers from tracking them. The only chance Bilyash has to keep himself and Angie safe is to turn the tables. Yet what chance does an inexperienced Earthborn have against centuries-old assassins with nothing to lose?
ISBN: 978-1-928011-96-5
Genre: Urban fantasy/Science fiction
Series: The Nash’terel, book 1
Age: 17+
Pages: 312
Formats: Paperback, ebook
Released: May 2023
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Fans of hidden-world novels looking for new secrets to learn and societies to imagine should check out the Nash’terel. And remember, it’s not paranoia if Yeng assassins are trying to kill you.
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A light-hearted Philip K. Dick novel on steroids… a rollicking roller-coaster ride of plans gone awry, unexpected surprises, evil villains, occasional orgasms, off-beat details, treacherous encounters, and all of it not only unanticipated but enlivened with wry humour including date-sparring, politics as unusual, sociological and anthropological nonsense, and a fine sense of the outrageous. This book offers the reader a genuinely entertaining good time. Some books are interesting. Some are intriguing. A few are addictive page turners. This book is all of that but most of all it’s fun to read.
Amazing Stories
This is the “Alien Vampires in the Toronto Film Industry” novel you were waiting for!
James Alan Gardner, author of THEY PROMISED ME THE GUN WASN’T LOADED
Buckle up, reader! You’re in for a wild ride. THE EARTHBORN moves fast, but not so fast that the humor ever departs, nor the very vivid characters ever grow thin. And the wildly ridiculous feels so darned real. And dangerous. This is a delightful romp, masterfully told by a veteran storyteller who should be on everyone’s reading shelf. Even if everyone who finishes this book will be looking over their shoulders for the rest of their lives.
Ed Greenwood, bestselling and award-winning creator of The Forgotten Realms
I had a good time with this book. I found myself returning to it eagerly both because I liked the characters and because I wanted to know what would happen next. It was a fast, fun ride with new possibilities opening up after each violent encounter.
Mike Finn’s Fiction
Marks ramps up the action with plot twists and revelations… The book is smoothly written and offers characters we can root for. The plot tension inherent in The Earthborn kept me turning the pages. The fact that the story was largely set in Ontario, and in somewhat familiar territory, was an added bonus.
The Miramichi Reader