Blood Rights (Series)
Imagine a world where every form you now fill out has a section for "species," and checking off vampire is a possibility now. Where everything is now open day and night to accommodate all different species, both human and paranormal. Where vampires and werewolves and fae and all the rest are now recognized as legal persons in their own right.
This is the world of the Blood Rights Series by K. B. Thorne, where the United States has passed legislation to make all of this real--with all the fascinating differences, the boring day-to-day lives, the blowback that such a turn of events would lead to.
The series contains six novella to novel length stories or short story collections, all set in the fictional Connecticut town of Adelheid. Each book in the series is told in First Person narrative, following different narrators, although all the characters are connected to Sadie Stanton and the Stanton Agency in some way. The series takes place approximately from autumn of 2011 to summer of 2016.
VAMPIRES ARE PEOPLE TOO
I’m Sadie Stanton, and I don’t know why everyone makes such a big deal out of me. I’m just like everyone else—I’m trying to start a business, not spending much time on my social life, and dealing with an obnoxious roommate...
Oh, and being a vampire. There’s that. But it’s okay, because we’re all legal now.
But believe me, that doesn’t make life easy. In fact, it might be harder now than ever before, but I did it to myself… And now vampires are attacking people seemingly at random and not even trying to feed.
Everyone is looking to me to help sort out why, but that turns pretty easy into looking for someone to blame.
Fast.
I guess I’ll need to be faster.
BLOOD ISN’T ALWAYS BLOOD
The name is Dakota. No last name. Just that.
I’m a bounty hunter, only I hunt all the things that go bump in the night. The things that others are too afraid to hunt. I live alone. I work alone. That’s how I like it. Other people just mess things up.
Life doesn’t always work the way you want it to, though, does it? Sometimes, things—or people—just get forced on you, and you just have to deal with it. Well, wise guy, how am I supposed to handle hunting an ex-lover and a freakin’ thousand-year-old vampire—at the same time?
I guess I’m about to find out.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR... IT MIGHT COST YOUR LIFE
Adelheid, Connecticut. Center for the preternatural beings in the US…which was not where I wanted to be.
I never expected it to become this back when I moved here.
My name is D, and I live in fang central. Never had much use for them, the fangs. Not until a hot chick, a hot car, and a split-second decision because I wished for more in my boring life.
Well, I got it. Sort of.
Now I’ve made some more life-changing, split-second decisions. And apparently, I’m being hunted for it.
ONE WORD CAN REWRITE THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE
Abduction. Torture. Surrender.
My entire life has been framed, it has been created, by eleven months when I was fourteen. It left me scarred in ways no one has ever seen before on the outside, and in ways that no one can see on the inside.
I’m grown up, have a good job as a detective, and a personal life that’s my sister and my pet rabbit. But that’s okay. Now, though… Now… Girls are showing up dead and they have all the scars I have. How am I ever going to handle looking for their killer when at every turn, I’m faced with my past?
And yet, the one who hurt me is dead…so who is doing this to these girls? How am I going to find that out without losing my mind?
EVERYTHING HAS A DARK SIDE
For a moment, I had everything going for me—good job, good friends, and a great relationship with an amazing woman.
And then, everything changed.
As a cop, I always knew Adelheid had a dark side. I just never thought I’d get such a close-up view of it. Never thought it would get to me like this… I never expected to be forced to fight for me life…against my own nature.
STORIES BETWEEN THE STORIES
Do you ever wonder what happens between the Big Stories? What maybe is happening behind the scenes? Well then, sit back and read along with these between-the-tale short stories happening around, behind, and between the first five Blood Rights Series stories!
PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN
There are certain things you don't mess with.
You don't tug on Superman's cape. You don't spit into the wind. You don't play with preternatural genetics. And you don't screw around with Dakota. Me.
People seem to have forgotten that.
I guess I'll just have to remind them.
EVEN BACKGROUND CHARACTERS NEED ATTENTION
For everyone out there who watches the backgrounds of movies and television to see what the extras are doing, here's a collection of short stories to show you a little more about the "extras" of the Blood Rights Series!
Learn more about the enigmatic Posey Kai, the mysterious Cassandra, the creepy Abigail, a vampire about to set the record straight on the murder of Cameron St. John, and once again visit the werewolf-next-door Madison as her life goes from boring to unconventional.
WE ARE ADELHEID
We all knew this day was possible. Most of us hoped that it wouldn't happen, that it would just remain in the realm of "maybe" forever...but that hope is gone. It's happened. After years of holding back the tide of hate, somewhere a tiny break has formed in our dam and it looks more possible than ever that Cameron's Law will be ripped away from us.
Violence against us is once again on the rise. We're all terrified. Everything we did, everything we once risked... We have to do it again. Do we even have it in us?
I'm Sadie Stanton, and I have to prove to the world one more time that we are more like you than you think. That fanged or furry, we still have humanity in our soul and deserve the right...
...to live. Even those of us that don't.