Without further ado....
A human sacrifice throws vampires of two worlds, trueborn
and baseborn, into an escalating conflict. One side pushes for revenge, the
other for freedom. The trueborns stubbornly hunt for Anthony and Louis, pushed
by Hesrah’s desire to avenge her human best friend, Alexa. The baseborns are
divided between rallying with those challenging the rule of Ankhsis and obeying
the trueborns.
What emerges from the portal between Earth and Ankhsis in
the middle of the turmoil rocking both worlds is more dead than alive. Neither
human, nor baseborn, and certainly not trueborn. This new being will either
damn them all or be their race’s most powerful weapon. Will they trust it not to
destroy them, or will Ankhsis decide putting it down is the only solution?
In the end, who is guilty? Who will pay? Will anyone survive
its wrath?
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Hesrah was growing impatient; she wanted to return to the
portal, so she decided she needed to push them to finally share their
information with her.
"What is it that you have discovered that needed my
immediate attention?"
Anhubis took out an envelope from the inside pocket of his
jacket and threw it on the table. She reached out to it and found a few photos
in it. Louis, strapped down to a chair, all bloody and beaten. Good for him!
"What is this?" she asked, looking at Anhubis from
under knitted eyebrows.
"One of our baseborn friends – we still have a few of
those – followed Anthony after the events in Juliana Park. He managed to send
these over before being caught."
"Do you know where he was?"
"Yes, but they are long gone."
"Why would Anthony do this to his partner in
crime?" she asked, tilting her head.
"God knows," Anukh stepped in. "Maybe they
were never partners. Maybe he found out who Louis really was."
"Can you find them again? Or do I have to bring an
Inner Sanctum squad over here?"
"Don't you dare!" Anhubis said in a thundering
voice, pointing a threatening finger at her. "The Inner Sanctum will not
meddle on Earth. I will find them again."
"Make sure you let me know the moment you do,"
Hesrahsaid, her eyes boring into him.
"Won't you be too busy guarding the portals, waiting
for your precious human friend?"
His mocking smirk, more so than his sarcastic words, got to
her and in a blink of an eye her fist raced through the air, connecting to his
face. As he fell to the ground, she lunged and got on top of him, her fangs
piercing the skin of his neck. Her nostrils flared at the spicy cologne he was
wearing and she managed to squeeze a few drops of his blood before Anhubis
threw her off of him. The fight would have surely escalated if Anukh wouldn't
have stepped in to stop them.
"Are you both crazy?" he hissed, a deep frown line
marring his forehead. "Anhubis, you are the head of the High Council.
Surely you can tell how ill-advised being inconsiderate towards humans is. And
you, Hesrah! You are a part of the Inner Sanctum and your mother's daughter.
You should both be ashamed."
When they moved away from each other, Anukh, with a half
sad, half disgusted smile, said a hurried good-bye and left the room.
"If you ever talk about her like that, I will kill you
with my bare hands," Hesrah said through clenched teeth. To her, that was
not a threat, it was a promise, and she suspected Anhubis knew it, as he nodded
quickly and took a step back.The Edge of
Hope (Bad Blood I) by Alina Popescu
Everyone she loved betrayed her. She felt lost and broken.
Getting away from the pain and embracing a new path, Alexa decided to leave her
old life behind and chase a long forgotten dream in Malta. There she met a
gorgeous man, bearing the scent of fresh love. He led her to a new city to
explore, Amsterdam. Is the tall, dark, and delicious man a dream come true or
just a risky gamble?
Alexa chose hope and new beginnings over fear and warning signs only to be brutally
dragged into a world she never really thought existed. Vampires, their feuds,
and her future held tightly in their hands.
Trapped in a mysterious world, Alexa gives love chance after chance. Following
her quest of self-discovery in a blood bound world, will she survive the
journey?
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About the author
Writer, traveler, and coffee addict, Alina Popescu has been
in love with books all her life. She started writing when she was ten and even
won awards in local competitions. She has always been drawn to sci-fi, fantasy,
and the supernatural realm, which explains her deep love for vampires and is
also to blame for this trilogy.
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