The Path of Thorns series by Cynthia A. Knoble (#1-2)
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Overview: Reading “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe at the tender age of eight inspired a life-long love of the macabre in Cynthia. Her mother handed her Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot next, and she was forevermore a fan of all that is dark and mysterious. Intrigued by the concept of an entire world of unknown entities living amongst us, she finds it both terrifying and invigorating. Maybe it’s all merely fiction but perhaps it’s more. She has written stories since childhood but life, work, and family kept her too busy to pursue writing as a career. At forty-one, on her own with her two sons, she decided to pursue a career in culinary arts and enrolled in college. She became sick and while she did graduate, she was unable to work in the industry. Sidelined, she returned to her first love, writing, in hopes it would cure all ills. It has. The author of several frightening works, she has just begun what promises to be a lengthy career of entertaining readers with stories of unspeakable horrors.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Path of Thorns I
“Since you have turned your back on God’s blood, it shall be God’s blood that eternally curses you.”
Archangel Michael delivers God’s curse with the sharp edge of the Almighty Blade, cutting away Benjamin’s wings along with his divinity. Benjamin becomes a demon, cursed to live on the blood of the humans he once protected. Immortality is his additional punishment as God intends Benjamin to pay penance for all eternity, unable to die at the hands of those who seek to destroy him. However, Benjamin can still suffer and suffer he does, for eons, targeted by angels with grudges and seers who can perceive the demon appearance he hides from humans. Withdrawn from the world, only his need for sustenance causes Benjamin to interact with humans, all the while keeping to the shadows, hidden from those who mean him harm.
Shannon Bennett can see angels. Her unique ability feels like a curse as no one believes she can see what she does. One spring morning, she spots a man with not-quite-there-wings, transparent remnants of wings, something she has never before seen. Although intrigued by Shannon’s ability, Benjamin resists her attempts at befriending him but, despite his best efforts, and under an influence he cannot comprehend, the pair soon become close friends. Their relationship is unholy and destined for tragedy but Benjamin vows to protect Shannon in a city swarming with demons.
The pair are dragged into the dark underbelly of Toronto where whispers of a coming apocalypse swirl, exposing them to dangers he has spent centuries avoiding. As his circle of acquaintances grows to include a seer and a priest, Benjamin faces a vengeful threat from his past, one intent on tearing apart his world with fangs and claws. Will Shannon pay the price for his past deeds? And could the apocalypse, dismissed by Benjamin for millennia as a fable, be a reality?
The Path of Thorns II
A new threat descends on Benjamin, one that promises to be much more damaging than his run-in with Ruth. The Alpha is in Toronto with his entire pack, hundreds of werewolves sworn to destroy the First on sight. Can Benjamin hope to survive Absalom’s wrath? If so, an even bigger problem looms. In a city brimming with demonic forces, an apocalypse once dismissed as a dark fairytale becomes reality. As demon hordes rise under Lucifer’s rule, the angels respond with force and Toronto is caught in the cross-fire.
Lucifer devises an ingenious way to rid the city of witnesses to his rise to power, enabling him to keep his acts from the eyes of the world. His plan endangers the humans Benjamin has vowed to protect. Unable to remain neutral in the conflict between the demons and angels, Benjamin must find a way to protect the humans and aid the angels. But will Archangel Michael ever trust a plan conceived by a fallen angel?
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