Thank you VERY much for your comments. I’m fairly satisfied with this version:

The destruction of the vampires marked the ending of an age.

As the vampire miasma faded, Dimilioc led the way toward an alliance of black dogs and ordinary humans against monsters deadlier than either.

Yet not all monsters are easy to recognize. Practitioners of black magic hide in plain sight, spinning webs of confusion and madness, determined that the age now dawning will be theirs.

Dimilioc isn’t going to let that happen. But black dog strength, Pure magic, and human intelligence may not be enough to stand against enemies far more subtle and terrifying than any Dimilioc has faced before …

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It’s short, it doesn’t recapitulate too much that readers can be presumed to know, it points toward the central problem without giving much of anything away. It doesn’t name any characters specifically, but I think I’m okay with that. I think this is sufficient to move forward with scheduling a preorder — I will never forget scheduling a preorder with “Add Description Here” in the description box. (I swear I didn’t realize anyone would actually SEE the preorder, since I definitely did not point it out myself, meaning to add the description first. Thus I learned that Amazon will sometimes show a new preorder to readers without waiting for the author to do it, and also that some readers will preorder a book with “Add Description Here” as the sole description.)

Anyway, I’ve added the above to the description box for now, and I think it’s fine to put this on the back of the paperback, which means I can now ask the cover artist to complete the paperback cover.

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I still haven’t totally decided about whether to schedule the Amazon release for late October or sometime in November or when. But, even though I’m not ready to send Part I to proofreaders today, I should be tomorrow, honestly.

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