ABOUT
Hello there.
I’m Melaina Blanc, artist starving in jungles, urban and otherwise.
Currently camped in the traditional kind, keeping costs down while I make the time it takes to write a novel series.
But I’ll be home one day. Meet me in Manhattan, down by the abandoned hospital.
There’s a vampire fight about to go down.
Someone’s going to die.
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When impoverished idealist Jared Stern chances upon the vampire Keen’s murderous meal, he’s thrust into a battle against a creature that suffers no witness to live. Stakes are raised when he takes up vampire hunting, and Jared quickly finds himself in up to his neck as their game of cat and mouse spirals across the city.
But there’s more to this charismatic monster than meets the eye, and Keen, not easily deterred, takes an interest of his own in his would-be slayer. As he starts to reveal a human face, driving a stake through skin and bone proves harder than it looks in the movies.
Can Jared stop a killer without becoming one himself? Is there any way to get through to a monster, or are some divides not meant to be bridged?
Climb to the heights of New York City’s skyscrapers and plunge to the sewers’ dankest depths in a lively horror story with a deadpan penchant for puns.
This is Star–Cross, Book I: Keen’s Turn.
FAQ
Is this for me?
This story identifies as thrilling and suspenseful urban/dark fantasy with light and dark humor, violence, profanity, horror, adult themes, and a touch of noir. It does not identify as mystery, historical fiction, comedy, tragedy, romance, bromance, or swashbuckler, though it may contain trace amounts of these substances.
If you like some combination of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fright Night (original or remake), Penny Dreadful, Supernatural, Good Omens, Airplane!, Constantine, Sherlock, True Blood, or vampire fiction in general, you may like this series. But really, there’s nothing quite like Keen’s Turn, which is why I’m having to write it.
And if you’re jumping on this carnival ride, fair warning—you’d best have the stomach for some offal puns.
Is this for kids?
No? How kids are we talking? See above. But I hear the kids are watching American Horror Story these days, so what do I know.
