The Light, The Dark & The Blood: Robert Thorn

“Eyes the colour of sapphires surveyed the forestland which lay at the foot of his garden. Four hundred years ago he had been born in that forest, in a rundown cottage which had been lost to ruin decades before. Four hundred years ago he had known pain, suffering, hunger and want. Four hundred years ago he had known what it was to love and be loved. Now his heart was caged in ice, locked in the deadened walls he had built around it. Solitary and silent he existed within the world that had always been his home, so accustomed to his ways that he no longer felt the loneliness that had once pierced through his soul. He had fought the isolation with cruelty and fury until all of his emotions were spent...

Predator, hunter, mind reader; more powerful than any other being that existed in this world. Blood drinker; Vampire.”  (The Dawn)

Meet Robert Thorn, a four hundred year old Vampire who lives a solitary existence, having removed himself from all his kind, seeking peace but finding only loneliness. Once, Robert made a vow to his dying sister that he would protect her descendants for all time and so when one of her descendants is murdered in cold blood by a Vampire and a Shifter he goes to the UK to seek out the killers and avenge his nephew’s death. Meeting his family is to forge his destiny and those of the three children left fatherless at Joe Hart’s death.

As the years pass Robert returns to his lonely existence until a letter from his niece begs his assistance in locating her brother who she believes to be in America. Robert reluctantly heads to Washington only to become embroiled in an attempted assassination on the Vampire King. The aftermath of this sees Robert gifted a Human girl, who strongly reminds him of one he knew four hundred years ago when he was a boy; one whom he rescued only to have her die in his arms and disappear.

Robert is a complicated Vampire. He hates Humans, yet will do anything to keep his Human family safe. He supports the Vampire King, yet has his doubts about the regime that has a stranglehold over most of the world. He believes himself incapable of love, yet one girl is about to change that and everything else he believes in...

And when the dawn comes, Robert will have to meet his destiny whether he wishes to or not.