Marshall had just awakened to the unknown. He waited for the fear of the unknown to come. But fear did not come. Instead, something else did... Boom! Niac acknowledged the excruciating pain from wounds that would kill a man, but he'd felt worst and knew his body would heal by sunrise. The explosion that ripped the ship apart came from somewhere behind Niac. He inadvertently shielded Marshall from most but not all of the flying projectiles that ripped through Marshall's clothing, skin, and bones. The blast catapulted them through the ship's hull and into icy-cold water. Four days later, the shock of existence caused Marshall's eyes to open as he lay half-submerged in frozen water, looking up into the clouds. He leaped to his feet with the quickness of an explosion causing ice to shatter from his skin. He was standing alone in the water off an icy beach in clothes so tattered they could barely stay on his body. Although there was no mystery about who he was, he had no idea or memory of how or why he was alone on an isolated icy beach.

Frantically, he turned his head left and right, hoping to find something familiar; to his dismay, nothing was familiar. Not even his own body. He slowly began to notice that he could barely sense the weight of his body, a sensation Marshall had never experienced before or could genuinely comprehend. As he looked out into the vastness of what he could only assume to be an ocean, he noticed that he could see at a distance reserved for telescopes. For reasons his mind could not grasp, his senses were reacting to the world in previously unfathomable ways. Marshall had just awakened to the unknown. He waited for the fear of the unknown to come. But fear did not come. Instead, something else did.

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"This first in the series novel is a marriage of vampires and American colonialism with a vividness of watching Mel Gibson's The Patriot with Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire. I am interested in where the author goes with his story considering the twist at the end of the book. I thoroughly enjoyed the historical footnotes on slavery in America and hope to see more regarding the history of Blacks during the early years of the United States."