Bibliography

- the mountains have many voices -

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• Midnight
• Midnight’s Heir
• Heir’s Starlight
• Starlight’s Shadow
• Eventide

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You’re a vampire. Being a vampire is pain. – Michael Devon II

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Brief Character Sketches

Samantha Clark – Young woman in search of something she doesn’t want to find – herself.

Stephen Young – Owns convenience stores in Harlan. He is an old friend of Sami’s who gives her a refuge and a new chance at life. A man both ruled and betrayed by his heart.

Jeremy Bradford – Sami’s boyfriend. Steve’s mentor. A man with a knack for being the exception to the rules.

Michael Devon – Sami’s close friend and mentor. Anethdraeg Elder.

Anethdraeg – [ann-eth-dray-ehg] – Vampire ‘House’, made up of folks in Harlan County with common beliefs who share a common bond. ‘The Family’.

Harlan County, Kentucky* – In the dark corners of America, sometimes hidden things remain. Harlan County is one of those corners. With mountains shrouded in forests and fog with still woodlands where sunlight doesn’t light ground, the nights seem darker – with neighbors sometimes a mile or more away. Always bigger than its inhabitants, this land deep in the heart of Kentucky where coal seams the earth and darkness holds sway over the land, Harlan County is locked in an endless struggle to maintain its roots in tradition. Often each community in the county, or even each family, has the appearance like a whole new world, each with its own customs and traditions.

Many people from Harlan County often see and hear things some would call ‘supernatural’. The people take these things in stride, like their forefathers have for generations. These ‘ghost stories’, passed around the dinner table or heating stove, help pass the time and connect the generations. These stories are often fanciful tales, told for generations…but sometimes they are not. Sometimes the tales are new, with the dark fresh in mind for the telling.

*with special thanks to Preston Halcomb and TL Trevaskis

My vampires are a bit different. They’re more human than vampire; they need little blood — to maintain their health and to keep them from going insane. I talk about that now and again in the stories, of course, but more in the second and the third than the first, though.

The first book starts out with “suicidal Sami” searching for herself, some stability, an anchor. And the people she comes to love and cherish as her friends are, of course, vampires. Sadly, as psychologically ill and damaged as Sami is, those three men continue the abuse in the way they treat her — feeding her half-truths and little to no information, mishandling her, and so forth. Of course she finds the things she’s looking for — she’s given no choice but to face herself and deal with what she finds there.

Book two is Sami coming into her own – as wife, mother, vampire, elder of her family…Book three more revolves around her off-spring and kin and her heirs…Book four, further into the future, ties up any straggling lose ends…Book five is the prequel I said I would never write but have been dinkering with now since late 2007.

The stories more revolve around the the very real life-problems the main characters face more than than “their vampireness”. The vampire is secondary, sometimes even tertiary. Even so, how they deal with their innate vampireness very much affects how they go about their lives, how they face themselves and their problems. This is what makes their uniqueness stand out.

Read more about how my vampires “work” in the Harlan Vampires Wiki.