The Seraph’s Blade is now available in paperback on Amazon! Journey on an apocalyptic adventure that takes us from Yellowstone to San Francisco as our accidental hero seeks to find a home for a potentially dangerous supernatural artifact and a millennium old spear.
It is the middle of the twenty-first century, the Seals have been broken and the Apocalypse is in full swing. The United States is only a shadow of the great nation it once was.
What remains has been sold for scrap and sundered into seven self-serving fiefdoms under the exclusive authority of the ultra affluent. In the skies above, angels battle their fallen counterparts. With Heaven’s attentions elsewhere, the eternal fae spirits of the mortal plane have also re-emerged, only to be marked again for extermination by the angelic Host.
The news isn't all bad—
There’s a dragon under Yellowstone. And a talking wolf.
The Seraph's Blade is the first book in a new urban fantasy series by Shane M.K. Rooks.
Shane M.K. Rooks is a first-time fiction author whose creative voice has been shaped by a diverse background in technology and the visual and the performing arts. A lifelong student of world religions, folklore, and mythology, Shane forges his stories with a particular interest in the mystical and the mythical, his narratives spun from the unseen threads that bind cultures, histories, and human imagination.
Growing up in the storied Green Mountains of Vermont, Shane developed an early appreciation for narrative through imagery and performance. As an adult, Shane’s academic career took him across the country, from the Northeast to the moody forests and vibrant communities of the Pacific Northwest, before eventually settling in Vancouver, British Columbia. His transcontinental travels underlie the themes of transformation, displacement, and community that permeate his stories.
With his debut novel, Shane M.K. Rooks invites readers into a world where the ancient haunts the modern, imagination takes center stage, and storytelling is a ritual of discovery.
Shane drinks his coffee black.
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