Synopsis

[Should probably have put this up before chapter 1 but oh well....]

There is a commonly held belief that every myth has, at its center, some manner of truth.  The truth upon which the myth was built is often warped, misunderstood, and twisted by fear, until illness becomes demonic possession and dinosaurs were great daemons that ruled the earth before God cast them out.  Yet, still, beneath it all, there is an element of truth, deeply concealed within the fear of the deadly and what we don’t understand.  Ancient cultures across the globe all share the myth of the vampire.  Though the myths vary widely, the common thread of a sinister, seductive, often beautiful predatory creature that feeds off the life force of humans to maintain its inhuman powers and its unnaturally long existence still remain.  Most of these myths can now be dispelled as a fear of death and disease coupled with a lack of understanding of how disease is spread and what occurs to the body after death.  But what if the answer were not so simple?  What if evolution had taken an altered course?  What if humans were not at the top of the food chain?  Panthers were often thought to be daemons by the native people that were terrorized by that predator’s deadly skills.  What if an even deadly predator had evolved, parallel to man, to stalk them beneath a human skin?

 

Sunshine has led a dismally unremarkable life.  One that seems all the more dismal for the reality of her aging.  But on the day that she thinks the worst fact she must confront is her own graying hair, she stumbles into hidden world that changes her life into anything but unremarkable.  After a wrong turn takes her deep into gang territory, she is saved from a brutal attempted rape by a vampire, a vampire who must then keep her with him in order to protect his secret.

 

But unlike the traditional myth, this vampire, Caleb, is not of the Undead.  He is an evolved primate, a predatory species, one of many that have been living among men, preying on them, for eons.  Caleb’s existence poses the question, what if human evolution had progressed differently?  With all that we do not know that exists in the universe, what if we are not at the top of the food chain?

 

Follow Caleb and Sunshine as they travel together, hunting one of Caleb’s own who, out of madness, kills for sport.  See the story through their eyes as they hunt, not only this bloodthirsty daemon that preys on humans, but also those daemons of memory, loss, and regret that live within their own souls.