Daemon Blood
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Lu Darlington is a seer, bound to the daemon Talion through ritual and blood. Itโs not a role she enjoys, but she has little choice: daemons take what they want and destroy whoever stands in their way.
So Luโs surprised when Talion doesnโt punish her for her newfound ability to keep him from possessing her whenever he likes. In fact heโs pleased. The stronger she is, he explains, the more powerful he becomes.
And he needs that power, because a war is brewing in the daemon world, a war that will be fought byโand throughโhumans.
Luโs friend Lisa Duncan canโt see daemons but sheโs seen what they can do and so has stayed far away from Lu for years. But after a bizarre attack on Lisa leaves a man dead and she learns itโs only the first skirmish in the daemon war, Lisa realizes the safest place to be is with Lu.
Then Talion sends Lu away to teach her skills to another seer and Lisa must stay behind to look after Luโs son Solly, conceived through a daemon ceremony with Talion. At four years old Sollyโs seer abilities are already so strong Lisa is sometimes more afraidย ofย Solly thanย forย him.
As Talionโs enemies grow bolder, Lisa and Lu face attacks from every direction. There seems little hope any of them will surviveโuntil Talion and his allies devise a plan.
The only problem is how much it will cost.
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Mary Maddox is a suspense, horror, and dark fantasy novelist with what The Charleston Times-Courier calls a โRay Bradbury-like gift for deft, deep-shadowed description.โ Born in Soldiers Summit, high in the mountains of Utah, Maddox graduated with honors in creative writing from Knox College, and went on to earn an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She taught writing at Eastern Illinois University and has published stories in various journals, including Yellow Silk, Farmer's Market, and Huffington Post; and in the anthologies Awesome Allshorts and What We Talk About When We Talk About It. The Illinois Arts Council has honored her fiction with a Literary Award and an Artist's Grant.
