Sanguine: A Floridian Gothic (Chrome Orphans Book 1)

"Blood and souls are Chrome's creation, blood and souls Sanguine's libation." Three young exiles ride across the fuming glades and lurid wastes of the Fourth World, far beyond time from the fall of the Anthropocene. Hybrid warriors pledging their blades to fellow post-humans for food and fuel, until a chance collision draws them into workings of two desperate tribal convoys. All the while, these peoples are pursued by an unknown and bestial force that poaches the wide-wanderers of Sanguine in vengeance. Death surrounds them, from knives in the dark to the overwhelming heat of the sun, from the tooth and claw of forgotten beasts to marauding tribal warfare. They cling to each other, form allegiances and romances, give alms and share drinks, in hope to be even a small, singular light in the primeval darkness of Sanguine. Sanguine: A Floridian Gothic is a story ripped from the covers of death metal albums, written in the tradition of sword & sorcery, and steeped in the occult Americana of the deepest, darkest South. It is a tale of people hoping for brighter paths ahead, surviving the vicious present, and tending to the nurturing past. It is set in an alien and far-flung globe that yet seems so familiar. See for your self.

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