Hunted

THE BOOK: Hunted.

PUBLISHED IN: 2020.

THE AUTHORS: Sarah Biglow (top photo) & Molly Zenk (bottom photo).

THE PUBLISHER: Cayelle Publishing.

SUMMARY: Fans of the supernatural vampire series True Blood, Twilight and Vampire Diaries will soon have a unique new series they won’t want to put down. In order to save his younger brother from a vampire recruitment weekend disguised as a live action role-playing game, Vampire Hunter Darren Paxton must team up with Vampire Edith Dorset and things get…complicated.

On the hundredth anniversary of being turned into a vampire, Edith joins her adopted daughters and their friends at the Heartsong Clan’s annual “vampires vs humans” LARP recruitment event where she meets an eager Dan Paxton. Dan’s older brother and vampire hunter, Darren, thinks he is merely chaperoning a trip to a nerd convention, but when Darren discovers Dan miss ing, he follows the only lead he has to the Heartsong Clan’s residence on Tombstone Row. He’s determined to keep his Hunter instincts in check, rescue his brother, and make a clean escape. When an impromptu late-night encounter leads Darren and Edith to be honest with each other about who and what each of them are, Edith longs to keep Darren and his brother close, even though it goes against Clan rules. The two start to grow closer as they seek out the truth from Edith’s Sire, Mr. Heartsong, and soon Darren is finding it harder than he thought to snuff out Edith and her family. With diverse characters, and tons of action and twists, readers won’t want to miss the first in the HUNTED trilogy releasing November 17th by USA Today bestselling authors Sarah Biglow and Molly Zenk.

THE BACK STORY: Back in the fall of 2018, we decided we wanted to try co-writing together for a multi-author boxed set that was aiming to hit the USA Today Bestseller list. We ended up putting a shifter story into that set
(and we hit the list), but our first foray was this quirky alt-history social justice novel about two people really striving for humanity in different ways. We had a blast building the world, ensuring there were parallels between how vampires were treated throughout history and how marginalized groups were treated in reality. We wanted to make our vampires sympathetic. In terms of writing, it took us maybe a little over a month or so to write the first draft. We alternate chapters (and narrators). We’d planned out the overall story arc but sometimes it was a bit of a surprise to read the end of a chapter and go “oh boy, now where do we go from here?” We’ve stuck with this method for all of our joint projects and it has worked out well.

WHY THIS TITLE?: When we were coming up with the titles for this series we looked to books like Divergent and the trend for one-word punchy titles were the “in” thing. Plus, it was very much a game of cat and mouse and our characters were hunting for different things: acceptance, revenge, love. So, Hunted seemed a good title and it stuck.

WHY WOULD SOMEONE WANT TO READ IT? We think anyone who enjoys a good paranormal tale will enjoy Hunted. If you are at all into social causes and social equality, we think the themes of this book will touch you. We are also
proud of the unique twist we’ve put on our vampires. Our vampires can only turn others with knowing verbal consent and after seven people, the vampires die. It felt like a different take on vampires in general and we are very proud of them.

REVIEW COMMENTS: Early reviewers on Google Play have said that Darren pulled them in from the start and that “vampire fans won’t be disappointed” by this book!

AUTHOR PROFILES:

SARAH BIGLOW is the USA Today Bestselling author of several urban fantasy, cozy mystery and paranormal romance series, including the Seasons of Magic Urban Fantasy series, the Reverend Margot Quade Cozy Mystery series, the Celestial Academy young adult paranormal romance series, co-authored with Molly Zenk. She is a licensed attorney and spends her days combating discrimination as an Investigator with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. In her spare time, she is a TV lover and enjoys shows ranging from Call the Midwife, The Flash and Killjoys to This Is Us and A Million
Little Things. She lives in Boston with her husband and son.

MOLLY ZENK is the USA Today Bestselling author of several Young Adult, dystopian, paranormal, romance, and historical fiction books. She has degrees in Secondary Education, English, and Creative Writing. She spent six years using those degrees teaching High School English, Poetry, and Creative Writing
before going on hiatus to focus on being a stay-at-home/work-at-home Mom. Molly’s writing credits include Operation Boyfriend, Haunting You, the Captivity series and Celestial Academy series (both co-written with Sarah Biglow) and short stories and novellas in multiple boxed sets. Molly is married to a
Mathematician/Software Engineer who complains about there not being enough math or info about him in her author bio. They live in Arvada, CO with their daughters.

AUTHOR COMMENTS: As we mentioned above, we really wanted to touch on social issues of class in this book in a new and different way. Most of our joint works have some sort of social justice bent to them. That’s what you get with an English teacher and a lawyer at the helm.

WHERE ELSE TO BUY IT: Amazon, B&N, Bookshop.org.

PRICE: Print 11.99; digital ebook 4.99.

CONTACT THE AUTHORS:

WEBSITE: http://www.sarah-biglow.com / http://www.mollyzenkwrites.wordpress.com
TWITTER: @SBiglowWrites / @UnsinkableMoZe
INSTAGRAM: @sbiglowwrites
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/SarahBiglowAuthor / http://www.facebook.com/AuthorMollyZenk