When the Ice Melts Away

By: Bonnie Brady

“Blair, I want you to kill my son. For he has no use to me anymore nor will he ever be of use to anyone who walks this earth both of the bloodless children of the grave and the humans who are ripe with life blown onto them from the dust that created them and the soil that holds them close to home. Examine your face, find your family, find your fate. Find the child, bring him to me and kill him.” Blair is 23. He has just come out of North Arch University in London and works behind the tills at a corner shop, dreaming of something better than the life he has when one day he comes across an advertisement searching for assistance at a local loved bookstore, Crimson Tale Books. Blair is immediately intrigued and to his luck, is accepted. But as Blair starts his new job he falls ill with haunting visions that paralyse him, thrusting him into a blinding world of ice and pain. All he can do is suffer as the daily world around him revolves. With the help of Lowen, the owner of Crimson Tale Books and Gabriel, sent to guide and protect, Blair is introduced into a world of Vampires and all things that intrigue and terrify him at once. But to Blair is shocked to finally learn the cause of his immobilising visions are a call for something sinister and more stirring than expected...