Book Two of The Line of Cain Saga · The Line of Cain Saga
Ash Crown Rising
A Dark Fantasy of the First Vampire King
EVERY KINGDOM BEGINS WITH A WOUND.
Cain's blood has made its first heir. Dariel, the first of the turned, walks away from the man who remade him and into a world that has not yet learned to fear what he is. In a dead city raised from the sand, he builds an order no mortal king has dared: fear made into law, hunger made into discipline, the living ruled by the undying. His followers call it the Ash Crown. It is not worn. It is obeyed. But one woman inside his walls refuses to bend, and beyond them the kingdoms of men are gathering their armies. While Cain and Eliora choose a different road, the first king of the bloodline learns what every throne built on blood must learn. It has to be fed.
153 pages · 9798192420003 · Perch Press
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M. A. Khan writes at the meeting point of ancient warning and modern consequence. A British author with a previous career at the sharp end of military and trauma medicine, he brings a surgeon's economy and a soldier's eye to stories that range from apocalyptic geopolitical thrillers to mythic dark fantasy. His books ask one recurring question: when the old stories said we were warned, what exactly were we supposed to do about it? He writes as M. A. Khan; his nonfiction appears under Mansoor Ali Khan. Published by Perch Press.