Darkness and Light must do Battle
Darkness and Light must do Battle.
It has been almost two months since Tom faced his vampire father, Raxos, in the little Cornish village of Coombedown. He has become a patient of Unit 43b, the designation given to Penbride Manor by an unnamed branch of His Majesty's Government dealing in the strange. The manor has been designated a 'place of safety', run by a team of elite soldiers and their civilian support staff, all now focused on understanding Coombedown and its nightmare history. Tom, human during the day, vampire in the dark, is the centre of their attention as the doctors and scientists analyse the changes that his father began in him.
Uncertain about what he is, Tom wants answers as much as the mysterious powers that run his new life. He has found a safe routine in the chaos that Raxos left. Yet things are changing again. With a new school year starting for the other vampire children, Tom is glad when he watches their world expanding beyond the horrors of Coombedown once more, but a new arrival threatens the fragile normal of his own life.
Unsure of his own abilities: only just learning how to cope with the alterations to his body and mind, Tom must face his own fears and find the strength in himself to combat a new enemy even more dangerous than his father, a new adversary manipulating things behind the scenes, who could destroy everything he has left.
Darkness and Light must do Battle.
It has been almost two months since Tom faced his vampire father, Raxos, in the little Cornish village of Coombedown. He has become a patient of Unit 43b, the designation given to Penbride Manor by an unnamed branch of His Majesty’s Government dealing in the strange. The manor has been designated a ‘place of safety’, run by a team of elite soldiers and their civilian support staff, all now focused on understanding Coombedown and its nightmare history. Tom, human during the day, vampire in the dark, is the centre of their attention as the doctors and scientists analyse the changes that his father began in him.
Uncertain about what he is, Tom wants answers as much as the mysterious powers that run his new life. He has found a safe routine in the chaos that Raxos left. Yet things are changing again. With a new school year starting for the other vampire children, Tom is glad when he watches their world expanding beyond the horrors of Coombedown once more, but a new arrival threatens the fragile normal of his own life.
Unsure of his own abilities: only just learning how to cope with the alterations to his body and mind, Tom must face his own fears and find the strength in himself to combat a new enemy even more dangerous than his father, a new adversary manipulating things behind the scenes, who could destroy everything he has left.
This is the second book in the Night Blood Chronicles.
When coming of age means a taste for blood. Tom Franklin is haunted by his dreams, nightmarish images of dark places and even darker instincts. Learning they are repressed memories from his early childhood, Tom must face the heritage from his birth-father, a savage vampire known only as Raxos.
