Hey fam!!
My first novel and the first of the Mountairy Rock City Chronicles is out right now the BARNES & NOBLE website as an E-book.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-serpent-cult-howard-night/1110320101?ean=2940014563567
The SERPENT CULT is a fantasy piece set in a modern urban setting featuring Max Madigan, a late twenties African Amaerican research assistant as the protagonist.
Mountairy Rock…
…a modern city with an ancient soul. A city where goliath trees dwarf the skyscrapers, hidden packs of werewolves roam the rooftops, present day witches practice covertly and a leviathan of a Demon secretly builds its own army of crazed worshipers.
Life had finally started to come together for Max Madigan. This was going to be the year that would see him finally earn his Doctorate, start his career and hopefully kick his long dormant love life back into gear.
But just as the New Year starts there’s a grisly massacre at Haley University Museum. In the after math Max unknowingly stumbles across the Stone
At first glance the small engraved stone seemed to be nothing more than a bit of debris from the violence of the attack. So insignificant that he doesn’t notice it pulses warmly with mystical power. Now the path that his life had been traveling down has been irrevocably changed just by picking it up.
The cult responsible for the murders now knows that he is in possession of the Stone and begins launching attacks at him. Their members are crazed, maniacal and in some cases; serpent eyed and fang toothed.
Fortunately the mysterious and powerful Stone seems to be in tune with his peril and begins to fill him with its power granting him the incredible strength, speed, and heightened senses of a feral animal. It is a mystical power and it is just enough to keep Max half a step ahead of the cult and just out of arms reach of being cuffed and imprisoned by the law. But there are others who can sense and want the power that emanates from the Stone.
Prya, a flame haired vixen from an isolated section of Mountairy Rock, has taken a keen interest in both the Stone and Max himself. That interest isn’t looked upon lightly by her self proclaimed fiancé, Lotarre who, along with his brothers begin a relentless pursuit of Max all over Mountairy Rock.
Beset on all sides by danger and a mounting foray of enemies, Max’s luck turns and he is given aid by a modern day witch, Rasheeda Landry. Rasheeda serves as a guide to the side of Mountairy Rock that he’s never seen. She warns him of the dangers of Mountairy Rock, of the wickedness of the Serpent Cult…
…and she warns him of the Demon. Though it’s the members of the Cult that will fight, kill, and die if necessary in their worship, Max must eventually deal with the Demon that is intent on possessing the Stone.
When wave after wave of crazed maniacs and wicked serpent-men fail to capture it, the stage is set for the ultimate face-off between the Demon and an exhausted, beaten and spent Max in the back alleys of Mountairy Rock.
If this sounds like your kind of adventure I hope you'll give it a look.
BSFS forever, Nightmanager
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