Author Name: Adam Santo Book Title: Temperature: Dead and Rising Genre: Dark Fantasy Reader Age Range: 13+ Content Warnings (ex.Violence): none to speak of. Length (Word count or # of pages) 178 How Many Copies: 10 Format(s): ebook Goodreads Link To Book: Temperature: Dead + Rising Synopsis: An ancient, evil organization hunts two undead companions in Santo’s dark fantasy debut. While driving friends through a mountainous state park in Colorado, 26-year-old Sally Mertill loses control of her car. The crash is fatal to all, including Sally, but her body is thrown free of the burning wreck, and her autopsy at the understaffed Colorado Springs morgue is delayed. Centuries-old Bocnic “Bo” Drewings, who belongs to a clan of powerful undead sorcerers, finds her there and explains that a Wakening ritual, performed by mysterious Powers-That-Be, has returned her to life. For the time being, her body thinks it’s alive and still craves food and sex, although Bo assures her that those urges will stop. Later, after Sally jumps from Bo’s car, he teaches her healing magic. Soon Bo discovers that The Cross—religious militants bent on exterminating supernatural beings—are hunting Sally, and he brings her to a reservation of undead people, where a shaman uncovers an important secret about her.
Book Title: Temperature: Dead and Rising
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Reader Age Range: 13+
Content Warnings (ex.Violence): none to speak of.
Length (Word count or # of pages) 178
How Many Copies: 10
Format(s): ebook
Goodreads Link To Book: Temperature: Dead + Rising
Synopsis:
An ancient, evil organization hunts two undead companions in Santo’s dark fantasy debut. While driving friends through a mountainous state park in Colorado, 26-year-old Sally Mertill loses control of her car. The crash is fatal to all, including Sally, but her body is thrown free of the burning wreck, and her autopsy at the understaffed Colorado Springs morgue is delayed. Centuries-old Bocnic “Bo” Drewings, who belongs to a clan of powerful undead sorcerers, finds her there and explains that a Wakening ritual, performed by mysterious Powers-That-Be, has returned her to life. For the time being, her body thinks it’s alive and still craves food and sex, although Bo assures her that those urges will stop. Later, after Sally jumps from Bo’s car, he teaches her healing magic. Soon Bo discovers that The Cross—religious militants bent on exterminating supernatural beings—are hunting Sally, and he brings her to a reservation of undead people, where a shaman uncovers an important secret about her.