Sunday, August 3, 2014

Hell and the Hunger


Joe is the vampire. There are none like him on earth. Changing, morphing, and adopting the habits of the humans he hunts, the nightmare has been stalking this globe for tens of thousands of years. Sadly, he only remembers the last couple of thousand, the years where he forgot his love for humans. An old memory – the oldest Joe has – is what erased that love. One man, with one failed promise, crushed his soul and destroyed any love he felt in his heart. When a new promise comes to remind him, everything he thinks he knows is turned upside down. He must crawl out of the deep pit of melancholy that he has sunk into and regain his former glory. The only thing in the Universe that matters to him depends on it.


Evelyn is more than she knows, more than a loner that hides out in an old bookstore that her mother left her. That store – The Witches Tool Chest – is her whole world and her only connection to the woman that she never really knew. She died when Evelyn was three years old, leaving behind the store and a series of journals that comprise Evelyn’s knowledge of her. The daughter of a witch, Evelyn knows that she has some kind of power. She can feel it. The spells in mother’s books never work for her though. Intuition tells her that mother passed some kind of ability to her, something in her genes.  Without anyone to guide her though, what can she do with it?  Visions come to her, like intense daydreams.  Sometimes the events she sees in these visions come to pass almost immediately, other times it takes hours and still other times it will be days or weeks.  Strange warmth flows throughout her body when they come, like relaxing in a hot tub.  That sensation is followed by dizziness and then the vision.  Whenever that happens, she knows that she is seeing the future.  It never fails. She has no control of it though. When they come, they come. She can’t make it happen. Perhaps it is something about that openness that leads her to Joe or leads Joe to her. She can’t be sure. Whatever it is, it feels right. Chasing that feeling will change her simple life forever.

Joe and Evelyn are just two of the characters in author Mike Reynold's latest book…



When a vampire loses his love of the hunt he is left with nothing but his hunger…

That is precisely where Joe finds himself at the beginning of Hell and the Hunger. He simply doesn’t want to be alive any longer but it hurts too much not to feed. Spiraling slowly into a deep pit of melancholy, the once proud hunter has been reduced to combing bars for drunken women to feed on. Then he finds her.

Evelyn is a wonderful enigma. She lacks the emptiness that normally sits behind the eyes of the humans Joe hunts and awakens longings in him that he hasn’t felt in so long they feel foreign. He follows her on a journey that leaves him burned, battered, and nearly dead.

By the time Joe realizes that there was a reason he and Evelyn were brought together, she has been taken. With the aid of an old priest in an abandoned cathedral, Joe begins to regain his former glory. He needs to remember who he was before he became a nightmare lurking in the shadows. He will have to fight to the center of Hell and back if he wants to save his one reason in the Universe to live.



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