For Simone Copeland, everything is changing... She has a new body: stronger and faster than a normal person. And a new mind: colder and more dangerous than a normal person.
Now it seems she has another change to deal with. Something even bigger. Even more cataclysmic. .
A creature so horrifying and powerful that it defies all rational description has just taken her away from her old life, and left her to fend for herself in a place where the rational rules that govern normal reality don't seem to apply.
From what Simone can tell, this is a totally different world. An alien world, with its own strange customs. A place where dark rites are performed in the name of evil; where human sacrifice is as ordinary as breathing.
What is her place in this realm? How will she escape? How will she learn to use the rules of power in a place where power is the only thing that matters?
Jacob Stanley is a speculative fiction author from northeast Georgia. He developed an interest in horror and fantasy at an early age, reading everything from old pulp fiction works by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard to horror epics by Stephen King and Robert McCammon. Eventually his interests branched out to include a huge number of writers from all the fantastic genres, including names as diverse as Clive Barker, Octavia Butler, C.S. Lewis, Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, Anne Rice, and Haruki Murakami.
In his early 20s he became obsessed with cinema and got caught up in the dream of the new indie film boom of the 90s. His first actual attempts to write fiction were all screenplays that he wrote over the next 10 years or so. During that time he watched every movie he could find, from the classic works of masters like Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, to the strange creations of David Lynch and Luis Buñuel. His fascination with extremes eventually made him a fan of numerous cult filmmakers, including Lucio Fulci, Roger Corman, and Russ Meyer.
His books are an attempt to distill all these diverse influences from the worlds of literature and cinema into a rich soup of epic-horror-science-fantasy weirdness.
In addition to writing, he's also been a guitarist since the age of twelve. In his spare time does a lot of reading, and enjoys hanging out with his family and pets.