News Release Summer 2008
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Ikthalion Press has a complete list of books for your summer reading pleasure, available now at our website and through most major online retailers:
The CHILDREN OF THE DRAGON series by T. M. Moore, a chronicle of the Xosan, living vampires from the ancient planet Antellus who were once human but were transformed by a dragon's blood. They are stories of science fiction, fact and fantasy, myth and history, tragedy and triumph; set in a universe as real as the reader's own and intermixed with real historical events.
Book 1: DESTINY'S FORGE - The epic series begins in 2256, and nothing is ever what it seems to be. Follow the adventures of Antonia Bellero, a hybrid on a manhunt for a war criminal. Through a quirky twist of fortune she winds up serving on the IFDC dreadnought "Destiny's Forge:, where she finds danger and romance. She becomes the catalyst for change in the lives of everyone she meets. But when she comes to the end of her quest, her own past is revealed and her fate shaped by destiny. 336 pages, TP ISBN 978-0-6151-6545-
Book 2: TO TASTE THE DRAGON'S BLOOD - Imagine that everything you knew or though you knew about humanity's evolution is turned upside down by just a few days spent on the surface of Mars. Jonathan Kraine is an explorer and archeologist who discovers a ruin beneath the surface, and learns the answers to the greatest mysteries of all time through his friendship with a fullblood Xosan named "Andru". 220 pages, TP ISBN 978-0-6151-6495-
Book 3: NAGRASANTI - An anthology of illustrated short stories and inspired art with bite, featuring characters introduced in the first two books. These are completely original and speculative pieces of fiction that continue the theme of the vampire as hero. Plus exerpts from the original fiction that inspired the series and 2 other stories; with a portfolio of b&w illustrations. 340 pages, 8.5" x 11", ISBN 978-0-6151-5918-
Book 4: RED DRAGON - The year is 1984. Michael Burton is a reporter who becomes part of the story when he covers the war between the dragon tongs in Chinatown San Francisco. He falls for a beautiful Chinese cop who tries her best to protect him, and forms an unlikely alliance with the Red Dragons. But when his grandmother is murdered, Michael meets with a fullblood who kills for a living to find out why. The answers only serve to deepen the mystery. Michael is captured by the leader of the Black Dragons, Xuan Longyan, and is forced to fight to save the woman he loves. 141 pages, ISBN 978-0-6152-0544-
Book 5: THE QUEEN'S MARKSMAN - In 1878 Robert St. John enlists in the British army to serve in Afghanistan. On the way there he meets two strangers who change his life forever. He becomes a hero, is knighted and recruited by Disraeli to form Her Majesty's Secret Service. He is menaced by Count Vladimir Drakulya, who wants the information he keeps secret. Robert loses everything but his life, but finds a new purpose when he reunites with an old friend to help rid London of the evil haunting it. 148 pages, ISBN 978-0-6152-0543-
Book 6: THE BLACK WITCH - Charity Rakham is a young English girl who learns about womanhood the hard way when her father and fiance' are killed by the dread pirate Blackbeard. Sold into slavery, she becomes a maid to a woman of means who is murdered, and she is framed for it. Now a fugitive, she rescues a hostage of the king of thieves who offers her love and the dragon's blood. Charity gains justice when she becomes the captain of the most fearsome pirate ship on the Caribbean Sea. 120 pages, ISBN 978-0-6152-1542-
Book 7: VIRUS - The year is 2361. Megan Thereau is a journalist who is invited to Nagrasanti to cover an important debate, only to discover that the peaceful community is threatened from within as well as without. The dragon's blood is calling for its due on the eve of their emergence from isolation and exile, while an adept of an ancient evil tries to invade and destroy the peace they have built. Megan learns that she possesses a great gift, but her greatest gift is in her compassion for others, and her search for true love ends not with a human but with a Xosan. 104 pages, ISBN 978-0-6152-0667-
These books are rated Mature for violence, some adult content and blood. Visit: http://www.ikthalionpress.com for more information.
Also available: A BOOK OF FIVE RINGS: A Practical Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi; A Modern Translation for the 21st Century Compiled and Illustrated by T. M. Moore; ISBN 978-0-6151-7236-
About the author: T. M. Moore is an avid reader and writer of science fantasy adventure and a fan of genre films. She writes in a strong visual and cinematic style with daring imagery that brings the reader into her fictional world but leaves room for the reader's own imagination, ever with the mission to educate as well as entertain.
Ikthalion Press is a publisher of quality science fantasy adventure and nonfiction books. Our mail address is 4451 Murietta Avenue Ste 26, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. For other information you can also contact us at info@ikthalionpress.com.
