The Girl From Yesterday -
The Blood Dynasty Chronicles Part 1
by David
L. Dawson
Description
Romance, intrigue
and adventure collide in The Blood Dynasty Chronicles, a new serial for young
adults based on the legend of Sleeping Beauty, only with added vampires and
dystopian futures!
Ashlyn wakes up a
thousand years in the future to a world run by vampires. She is sold into
slavery and ends up falling for her master's son, the handsome Jensen, and
becomes embroiled in the plans of Union Jack, a revolutionary who wants all
vampires dead...
The first volume of The
Blood Dynasty Chronicles lasts for six parts.
Excerpt
Ashlyn looked up as
he entered her cell. She wanted to ignore him or tell him to leave her to
her privacy but she feared the backlash. He could have her taken to the
kitchens to have her blood drained if she disobeyed him. Yet the
rebellious part of her longed to stand up for herself and for her rights as a
human. Would he even listen? He’d probably just smirk. The Sublime
family liked to smirk.
She waited for him to say something, refusing to look at him. He brought
out things in her that she refused to acknowledge. Besides, it was
forbidden to look a member of the family in the eye.
“I’m sorry, I should’ve knocked,” he apologized.
“It’s your house, you can do as you please,” said Ashlyn.
They certainly did as they pleased. Ashlyn remembered the look on the
maid’s face as he…She banished the image from her mind. It did no good to
ponder.
“I don’t normally talk to the workers but you intrigue me,” he said. She
kept her eyes on his chest. He was wearing the form-fitting suit he had
on earlier. No part of him was unattractive. She turned her eyes to
the floor instead.
“Nothing intrigues me these days,” he admitted.
“I guess I do have an interesting past,” said Ashlyn.
She laughed, and he said, “What’s so funny?”
“Workers shouldn’t laugh?” she demanded.
He came closer, and her hands began to shake. This man was a
monster. They were all monsters, swarming over the planet like
ants. She was trapped in a room with one of them and she was sure he
could hear her heart beat faster in pure terror. It probably made him
happy to see her so cowed in his presence.
“I want you to tell me about yourself,” he asked. “I want to know
everything there is to know about Ashlyn Fountain.”
“I belong to you,” snapped Ashlyn. “I’m your slave, your property.
What else do you want, or need, to know?”
He gave her a surprise when he sat beside her on the bed. There was no
warmth coming from him, just a wave of icy coldness that seemed to pick at her
bones. She wondered why he was really here and when he would leave.
What she’d done today in her duties as slave had drained her and she just
wanted to curl up in bed and sleep for a hundred years.
I’ve slept enough, she thought. I’ve slept more than enough.
“Please,” he pleaded. The note in his voice surprised her. She
thought she heard genuine interest. “Humor me. I want to know how
you got here.”
“You know how I got here,” she said. “That’s why you find me so
interesting.”
“Please.”
It couldn’t do her any harm to tell him, could it? If it got her treated
any better in the future then weaving a simple story of her past would be a
sound investment.
“You want to know what my life was like before this? It was boring and
simple. I was a normal girl with normal problems. A thousand years
ago, vampires were considered folklore and were stars of romantic
fiction. How could we ever know that they were real, and that they would
take over the world one day, and that world would be a utopia for them?
For us humans, though...we’re slaves. I’ll tell you what my life was like
before...it was better than this.”
Review
By Haley
Moore
This book was more
amazing than I expected! With so many teen vampire books out, I thought I was
going to read just another version of something already done, but I was wrong.
There were so many unique aspects of this book! The red net that cast a bloody
hue over the city to protect the vampires from the UV rays was the coolest part
of the book for me. I could image it clearly, and it explained how the vamps
could be out during the day in a realistic way. I also liked the idea of the
vampires hating technological advances. My favorite character, by far, was
Catherine. She never did anything I expected! The Girl from Yesterday has great
writing, with an ending you won't see coming!
About the Author
David L. Dawson is the writer of The Fall
and The Sky Is
Falling, the first two parts of the dystopian God Slayers Quartet. He also wrote the novella series Snow White
and Trip, as well as the middle grade Book of Fire Trilogy. His latest project is The Blood Dynasty Chronicles, a dystopian/scifi/vampire romance series,
of which The Girl
from Yesterday is the first part. The Streets
are Paved with Blood and Masks
are also available in this series.
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