Blood Rising

In a brilliantly terrifying blend of supernatural horror and  alternate history for fans of Ryan Coogler's Sinners and readers of  Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Stephen Graham Jones, a vengeful  vampire tribe formed of formerly enslaved Africans wages war across the  Southern colonies in the ultimate battle of blood and betrayal.

Kwadzo  Okoro never believed the bloody legend of Ramanga was real. Now, he  stands as the leader of a new Ramanga Tribe, one that sieged the Barrow  plantation in a storm of righteous carnage, liberating its formerly  enslaved Africans. Reclaimed as the Crimson Plantation, it is now also  home to the wronged Natives who fearlessly aligned with the Ramangans.

But  Kwadzo knows that freedom is not secure. Bartholomew and Constance  Crabtree, the most influential slaveholders in the region since the  demise of Big Jim Barrow, are galvanizing the Lakeside community to  strike back—violently. The threat they pose pales in comparison to the  insidious menace of Penelope Knudsen. Her white-hot hatred, now fueled  by Ramangan blood, and an ability to survive the sunlight—a power Kwadzo  doesn’t have—threatens to upend Kwadzo’s advancement of Ramangan might  throughout the colonies, especially as she builds a white vampire army  of her own and wages an all-out war against him.

But the gravest  threat comes from within: Rafazi. His blood fathered the rebellion, but  he will not take orders from his own creation. And when Rafazi makes a  deadly deal with the Crabtrees, Kwadzo is forced into a battle with his  maker that he may not survive, while the everlasting freedom of every  enslaved person in the colonies hangs in the balance.