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Fire & Ice Series by Karen Payton Holt (#1-2,4-5)
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Overview: Born in Wales, I came to writing late. My children are full grown, and in 2010, I had a dream - yes, I know, sounds like a cliche, but there it is. I had a conversation in my kitchen about vampire fiction. My position was, 'there is no point writing about vampires, unless you have something new to say'. I then had a dream which followed me around in the daytime, too, and I sat down on my laptop, and wrote it out of my head. But no, instead, it opened a floodgate I had no idea was there. I went from not having written a word in thirty years, to writing 80,000 words in six weeks. It was the birth of the series, 'Fire & Ice'. It is a series of 5 books featuring Connor and Rebekah and a prequel, all of which are written and will be released in 2018, hopefully. I worked on an online writers site - Writers Carnival - and wrote more than 70 short stories, 50 poems, and flash fiction at that time. I am published in Readers Carnival and Sanitarium magazines, before I committed myself to becoming a novelist, for now, in any event. My biggest irritation is that there are not enough hours in the day to fit in my day job, my writing, marketing, online platform building, and -insert the many I have forgotten here-! Writing is my passion, my name is Karen, and I'm very pleased to meet you.
Genre: Fantasy
1. Awakening
Think ‘Twilight’ meets ‘Game of Thrones” and you are in the right mind-set to enter the world of ‘Fire & Ice’. London, 1910. Bram Stoker’s Dracula had made barely a ripple in the pool of human consciousness, and it would be another 12 years before Nosferatu breathes life into a vampire on the big screen… but even then, in human society, vampires existed. Like a seam of gold running through the coal, they are there, but you have to look for them. For centuries, vampires were content to exist as creatures of myth and legend, barely making a footprint in the shifting sands of human consciousness, until Mother Nature unleashed the global pandemic which wiped out most of humanity. A predator emerges and humans become a valuable food source. Vampire survival instincts have an edge of desperation, and they are forced out of the shadows. The London of 2010 becomes a vampire hive as they cluster around their decimated food supply, and ‘survival of the fittest’ is a stark reality. Humans wish their world had ended, when, as a protected species, they are imprisoned, farmed as cattle, and siphoned for blood. The cloud on the vampire horizon is that humans age and die. Suddenly, vampire immortality has an expiration date. Connor is that rarity, a vampire and a doctor, who can treat a bleeding human - and not kill them. Tending to stricken vampires remains part of his duty; immortality has always been a tightrope walk over an abyss of insanity, and there are always those who fail to get it right. After a century of living on his wits and feeding on humans he considered deserving of death, Connor views the human farm with distaste. His passion is to find a synthetic blood substitute. Against this dark, forbidding backdrop, Doctor Connor does the unthinkable; he falls in love with a human girl. When he treats Rebekah, alarm bells ring. He realizes she is a free-range human, and hiding her carries the death penalty. ‘Turning’ her in is a no-brainer, and yet... Their worlds collide when Rebekah awakens in a vampire hospital and faces her worst fears -- discovery and capture. Her euphoric relief, when it seems the beta-blockers have protected her from detection, turns to terror. Connor grips Rebekah’s arm and her thundering heartbeat resonates through him. The tingling joy of being alive rushes through him again, and his journey into madness begins. His admiration for the human spirit punches a hole in his shell of indifference. Rebekah cannot escape without the doctor’s help. Her fear of vampires tilts on its axis as Connor becomes her safe haven. Connor's stagnant existence is shattered as he embraces the feeling of being alive once more. Outwitting the vicious intent of a vindictive councilor, surviving attacks by the vampire councils’ guardsmen, and being sentenced to locked-in syndrome were never in Connor’s wildest imaginings and falling in love with a human girl was something he never expected. Flying in the face of everything he should do, Connor risks everything and embraces the exhilaration of saving Rebekah and her group.
2. Survival
In ‘Awakening’ a Pandora’s box sprung open, and as the conflict hurtles into darkness, even vampire senses are reeling. Connor and Julian’s troubles have only just begun. Moving the human community to a secret location should have given them some respite, but the storm clouds are gathering. They are safe, but for how long? When Connor threw down the gauntlet and swore to protect Rebekah and her group, he sucked Julian into his chaotic world. Keeping humans out of the Farm Facility is only one stop along the way to madness, and now Julian is just as entangled in the web of deception. Lying to the jurors is something Julian faces with grim determination, and Connor’s senses are on continual overload as if he is juggling with fire and everything he loves could incinerate in an instant. Although still a thorn in their side, Serge they can control. The councilor is a mere splinter compared to a depraved foe who wears the cloak of anonymity. ‘Safety’ is an illusion which crumbles when Rebekah’s life is on the line, Connor sacrifices himself to certain death… and that is just the beginning.
4. Heart of Stone
London, 1910. Bram Stoker’s Dracula had made barely a ripple in the pool of human consciousness, and it would be another 12 years before Nosferatu breathed life into a vampire on the big screen… but even then, in human society, vampires existed. Like a seam of gold running through the coal, they were there, but you had to look for them. Doctor Connor became a vampire, and had been dead for one hundred years. But, will I survive the next one hundred? He was not so sure. The London of 2010 was a Vampire Hive. Immortality resembled a tightrope walk over the Grand Canyon, and the difference between having a prune or a plum for a brain was the hydration that could only happen when a vampire slept. Like all true predators, vampires evolved, learning how to ‘sleep’ one compartment of their brain at a time. The down side was, that like the victims of a multiple personality disorder, although vampires were always conscious, they were not always in control. As though that were not enough, Mother Nature stepped in and dealt a cruel blow. An influenza epidemic killed most of the human population, created a food shortage, and forced vampires out of the shadows. Vampire and human destiny changed when Connor and Rebekah’s worlds collided, and now, in Book Four, the adventure continues to hurtle forward. The London Hive has settled into an uneasy peace - as though everyone is holding their breath. Connor delivers great news on the development of the ‘blood substitute’, and humans are beginning to let go of their fear and believe that vampires are not all bad. An engagement party brings everyone in the eco-town together; Seren and Osiris celebrate the first hybrid betrothal, but then the emergency klaxon jolts the world back into battle stations. A vessel oozes into the London docks and the undead crew are cloaked in secrecy and unknown customs. Julian meets them with a display of force, but the visitors are masters in distraction and deception. The hive is torn apart when Connor betrays his family and willingly joins the vessel. Rebekah, Marius, Anthony and Greg launch their own mission against the invading force. Seren, Osiris and Malachi strive to make contact and find a weakness in the wall Connor has built around him. Julian and the London Hive can’t afford to lose this confrontation - the lives of humans and vampires alike hang on the edge of an abyss - one push and the world as they know it ends. Connor doesn’t believe in magic, portents, or the black arts, but science and reasoning are no match against the forces dragging him under.
5. Invasion
Nothing can hold back the tide of change. Only four of the ten vampire hives in Britain still exist - others have imploded under the weight of the growing human food shortage - but still, Connor's work on a blood substitute, designed to liberate humans from vampire rule, meets with stubborn resistance. Principal Julian, Connor, and every vampire of status, become so focused on their own plans, that they are blindsided by a global uprising. Feral vampires, like a plague of locusts, sweep across Europe from east to west, until all that stands in their way is the English Channel. Malachi's desperate plea for help galvanises Connor into action, taking him on a treacherous mission to Egypt to rescue his maker which brings home the devastating impact of the coming invasion. Enemies in the shadows, bearing grudges that span decades, conspire to bring down Doctor Connor once and for all, using the army of the undead which no one can defeat. Julian, Connor and Rebekah face the threat head on, but with traitors inside the gates, every move they make accelerates them towards an explosive catastrophe. When ferals cross the seabed, Connor's world spirals into the abyss, death and destruction stalk him and those he loves, and there can be no winners in the final battle.
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Overview: Born in Wales, I came to writing late. My children are full grown, and in 2010, I had a dream - yes, I know, sounds like a cliche, but there it is. I had a conversation in my kitchen about vampire fiction. My position was, 'there is no point writing about vampires, unless you have something new to say'. I then had a dream which followed me around in the daytime, too, and I sat down on my laptop, and wrote it out of my head. But no, instead, it opened a floodgate I had no idea was there. I went from not having written a word in thirty years, to writing 80,000 words in six weeks. It was the birth of the series, 'Fire & Ice'. It is a series of 5 books featuring Connor and Rebekah and a prequel, all of which are written and will be released in 2018, hopefully. I worked on an online writers site - Writers Carnival - and wrote more than 70 short stories, 50 poems, and flash fiction at that time. I am published in Readers Carnival and Sanitarium magazines, before I committed myself to becoming a novelist, for now, in any event. My biggest irritation is that there are not enough hours in the day to fit in my day job, my writing, marketing, online platform building, and -insert the many I have forgotten here-! Writing is my passion, my name is Karen, and I'm very pleased to meet you.
Genre: Fantasy
1. Awakening
Think ‘Twilight’ meets ‘Game of Thrones” and you are in the right mind-set to enter the world of ‘Fire & Ice’. London, 1910. Bram Stoker’s Dracula had made barely a ripple in the pool of human consciousness, and it would be another 12 years before Nosferatu breathes life into a vampire on the big screen… but even then, in human society, vampires existed. Like a seam of gold running through the coal, they are there, but you have to look for them. For centuries, vampires were content to exist as creatures of myth and legend, barely making a footprint in the shifting sands of human consciousness, until Mother Nature unleashed the global pandemic which wiped out most of humanity. A predator emerges and humans become a valuable food source. Vampire survival instincts have an edge of desperation, and they are forced out of the shadows. The London of 2010 becomes a vampire hive as they cluster around their decimated food supply, and ‘survival of the fittest’ is a stark reality. Humans wish their world had ended, when, as a protected species, they are imprisoned, farmed as cattle, and siphoned for blood. The cloud on the vampire horizon is that humans age and die. Suddenly, vampire immortality has an expiration date. Connor is that rarity, a vampire and a doctor, who can treat a bleeding human - and not kill them. Tending to stricken vampires remains part of his duty; immortality has always been a tightrope walk over an abyss of insanity, and there are always those who fail to get it right. After a century of living on his wits and feeding on humans he considered deserving of death, Connor views the human farm with distaste. His passion is to find a synthetic blood substitute. Against this dark, forbidding backdrop, Doctor Connor does the unthinkable; he falls in love with a human girl. When he treats Rebekah, alarm bells ring. He realizes she is a free-range human, and hiding her carries the death penalty. ‘Turning’ her in is a no-brainer, and yet... Their worlds collide when Rebekah awakens in a vampire hospital and faces her worst fears -- discovery and capture. Her euphoric relief, when it seems the beta-blockers have protected her from detection, turns to terror. Connor grips Rebekah’s arm and her thundering heartbeat resonates through him. The tingling joy of being alive rushes through him again, and his journey into madness begins. His admiration for the human spirit punches a hole in his shell of indifference. Rebekah cannot escape without the doctor’s help. Her fear of vampires tilts on its axis as Connor becomes her safe haven. Connor's stagnant existence is shattered as he embraces the feeling of being alive once more. Outwitting the vicious intent of a vindictive councilor, surviving attacks by the vampire councils’ guardsmen, and being sentenced to locked-in syndrome were never in Connor’s wildest imaginings and falling in love with a human girl was something he never expected. Flying in the face of everything he should do, Connor risks everything and embraces the exhilaration of saving Rebekah and her group.
2. Survival
In ‘Awakening’ a Pandora’s box sprung open, and as the conflict hurtles into darkness, even vampire senses are reeling. Connor and Julian’s troubles have only just begun. Moving the human community to a secret location should have given them some respite, but the storm clouds are gathering. They are safe, but for how long? When Connor threw down the gauntlet and swore to protect Rebekah and her group, he sucked Julian into his chaotic world. Keeping humans out of the Farm Facility is only one stop along the way to madness, and now Julian is just as entangled in the web of deception. Lying to the jurors is something Julian faces with grim determination, and Connor’s senses are on continual overload as if he is juggling with fire and everything he loves could incinerate in an instant. Although still a thorn in their side, Serge they can control. The councilor is a mere splinter compared to a depraved foe who wears the cloak of anonymity. ‘Safety’ is an illusion which crumbles when Rebekah’s life is on the line, Connor sacrifices himself to certain death… and that is just the beginning.
4. Heart of Stone
London, 1910. Bram Stoker’s Dracula had made barely a ripple in the pool of human consciousness, and it would be another 12 years before Nosferatu breathed life into a vampire on the big screen… but even then, in human society, vampires existed. Like a seam of gold running through the coal, they were there, but you had to look for them. Doctor Connor became a vampire, and had been dead for one hundred years. But, will I survive the next one hundred? He was not so sure. The London of 2010 was a Vampire Hive. Immortality resembled a tightrope walk over the Grand Canyon, and the difference between having a prune or a plum for a brain was the hydration that could only happen when a vampire slept. Like all true predators, vampires evolved, learning how to ‘sleep’ one compartment of their brain at a time. The down side was, that like the victims of a multiple personality disorder, although vampires were always conscious, they were not always in control. As though that were not enough, Mother Nature stepped in and dealt a cruel blow. An influenza epidemic killed most of the human population, created a food shortage, and forced vampires out of the shadows. Vampire and human destiny changed when Connor and Rebekah’s worlds collided, and now, in Book Four, the adventure continues to hurtle forward. The London Hive has settled into an uneasy peace - as though everyone is holding their breath. Connor delivers great news on the development of the ‘blood substitute’, and humans are beginning to let go of their fear and believe that vampires are not all bad. An engagement party brings everyone in the eco-town together; Seren and Osiris celebrate the first hybrid betrothal, but then the emergency klaxon jolts the world back into battle stations. A vessel oozes into the London docks and the undead crew are cloaked in secrecy and unknown customs. Julian meets them with a display of force, but the visitors are masters in distraction and deception. The hive is torn apart when Connor betrays his family and willingly joins the vessel. Rebekah, Marius, Anthony and Greg launch their own mission against the invading force. Seren, Osiris and Malachi strive to make contact and find a weakness in the wall Connor has built around him. Julian and the London Hive can’t afford to lose this confrontation - the lives of humans and vampires alike hang on the edge of an abyss - one push and the world as they know it ends. Connor doesn’t believe in magic, portents, or the black arts, but science and reasoning are no match against the forces dragging him under.
5. Invasion
Nothing can hold back the tide of change. Only four of the ten vampire hives in Britain still exist - others have imploded under the weight of the growing human food shortage - but still, Connor's work on a blood substitute, designed to liberate humans from vampire rule, meets with stubborn resistance. Principal Julian, Connor, and every vampire of status, become so focused on their own plans, that they are blindsided by a global uprising. Feral vampires, like a plague of locusts, sweep across Europe from east to west, until all that stands in their way is the English Channel. Malachi's desperate plea for help galvanises Connor into action, taking him on a treacherous mission to Egypt to rescue his maker which brings home the devastating impact of the coming invasion. Enemies in the shadows, bearing grudges that span decades, conspire to bring down Doctor Connor once and for all, using the army of the undead which no one can defeat. Julian, Connor and Rebekah face the threat head on, but with traitors inside the gates, every move they make accelerates them towards an explosive catastrophe. When ferals cross the seabed, Connor's world spirals into the abyss, death and destruction stalk him and those he loves, and there can be no winners in the final battle.
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