Blood Rites

"COLOR, COMPLEXITY AND BLAZING LIFE!" That's how Lyn McConchie, co-author with Andre Norton of "Ciara's Song" and "Key of the Keplian," describes the work of Janrae Frank. Now in the "Dark Brothers of the Light" Janrae Frank has produced a profound, chilling, thought-provoking one-of-a-kind dark fantasy that begs comparison with Anne Bishop's "Dark Jewels Trilogy," Lynn Flewelling's "Bone Doll's Twin," and George R. R. Martin's masterful "Swords of Ice and Fire." Taken as a blood-slave by Anksha the Beast, Isranon, a young necromancer descended of Isranon Dawnhand must choose between his dead father's teachings of pacifism and his lycan mentor's warrior beliefs in order to survive. Anksha is a demon-eater, who dines on flesh, blood, lives and magic, binding her slaves to her through a dominance-link set into every fiber of their beings. In a brutal world of vampires, blood-drinking sa'necari necromancers, and demons, Isranon must find the key to Anksha's inner nature, while escaping the snares set for him by both vampires and his own kind. Together with his lycan mentor, Nevin, he reaches out for allies and answers in a world growing steadily more hostile toward him for reasons he does not fully comprehend. The vampire lord, who is Anksha's master, is creating a monstrous undead creature such as has not been seen in more than 50,000 years to take the world from the gods who rule it. What can one young slave do to stop them in the face of such terrifying odds? Janrae Frank's fantasies are "ground breaking .works of genius," writers Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Find out why in "Blood Rites" the first volume of her epic new trilogy. Violence, adult situations.