First Light
A Novel
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
“A Phoebe Bridgers song in book form, I felt and bled, willingly and gratefully.”—CJ Leede, author of Maeve Fly
With Night’s Edge, Liz Kerin took a bite out of vampire lore. The riveting sequel, First Light, is about seizing a brighter future by confronting the shadows of our past.
It's been nine months since the catastrophe in Tucson sent Mia fleeing from her home. But she’s not running away from the darkness—she’s running toward it, obsessively pursuing the man who gave her mother a thirst for blood and destroyed their lives.
But when Mia finds the monsters she’s been hunting and infiltrates a secret network of fugitives, she discovers she might have been their prey all along.
To escape their clutches, she’ll have to reckon with her mother’s harrowing past and confront a painful truth: that they might be more alike than she ever imagined.
Also by Liz Kerin:
Night’s Edge
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Kerin's gritty follow-up to Night's Edge, the vampire tale continues as Mia—having survived the gruesome events that resulted in the death of her mother, a "Sara," or sufferer of the vampirism-inducing Saratov's syndrome—plots revenge on Devon, the man who turned her mother into a vampire in the first place. Kerin toggles between timelines as Mia infiltrates ADAPT, a Sara-supremacist organization that believes vampires are entitled to societal control due to their status as the next evolution of human beings. As she grows ever closer to Devon and vengeance, she learns that her enemies are closer, and hungrier for her blood, than she could ever have anticipated. Though the expanded worldbuilding and dueling timelines sometimes prove difficult to follow, Kerin imbues the story with a twitchy, grimy energy all its own, and the ending wraps things up beautifully. This duology stands as an exciting take on the vampire mythos for the modern era, exploring the difficulties of emotional intimacy in a world designed to make it a fatal liability.Readers will be entranced.
