The Great Pandemic: 2020. A fearful disease wipes out nine tenths of all humans. Three hundred years after the pandemic. Guardian City, Vampirica. A capital city, the new Rome emerges from the ruins of an older river city. Now Aliens rule the planet after six thousand years of exile from their Home World. They have been called many things, Gods, Monsters, Lovers, Vampires. Toxic Gardens, Guardian City, Vampirica. A garden of herbs, both beneficial and poisonous, created by a legendary healer which conceals a school for Vampire slayersMelpomene of Radu Springs. A legendary hunter, Revenant killer and Vampire Assassin. She struggles to preserve some vestiges of humanity. Her apprentices study gardening, building trades, healing and weaponry. She who-must-be-obeyed is a polymath, severe, brilliant and feared by Vampires. Marcus Windblown, sixteen year old troublemaker. Ambitious, charismatic, possessed by a power beyond his own knowing. Begins a journey to discover his identity which has been purposefully obscured to protect him from his blood enemy, the Fae. The Language of Creation, a lost language by which the world was made, a secret language possessed by the wild boy searching for his identity. Lord Nyx Grey Foot, Second in line to the Throne of Feylandia is a noted world walker who monitors one sector of the nine worlds. Toxic Gardens is the nexus of power he has been monitoring. Lord Belphegor. The Vampire Rex, a five-thousand-year-old Vampire, who has come to claim the wild boy as his Thrall. Lord Uzza. The first Vampire to discover Marcus is far more than a wild boy but himself an alien ally of Vampires possessed of enormous power and hatred of the Fae.“Easson somehow manages to intertwine both the poetic and the violent into a captivating stew of stunning language, stunning brutality, and stunning insight into the motivations, thoughts, and evolution of his characters, both human and vampire.” - Greg Hunt, author of the Borderland Series
