In contemporary Northern Ireland, two brothers unleash chaos when their violent gang crosses a line that cannot be uncrossed.
What they believe to be dominance is, in truth, desecration, an act that summons an older order and a reckoning far beyond their understanding.
At the centre of the storm stands a lone vampire marked by fire and memory, whose survival transforms grief into ritual and vengeance into rebirth.
Through her, art and violence fuse: a descent through betrayal, loyalty, and brutality, where old codes clash with new nihilism.
The Nox Sanguinem Universe
Gothic Horror,
Revenge Tragedy,
Dark Fantasy
A novel set in an existing, established world where old codes of loyalty and violence clash with something far older than crime, politics, or power. A world where beneath the bravado of gangs and the swagger of men lies a hidden order, one that has endured in secret, bound by ritual, memory, and blood.
When that order is shattered, the balance breaks. What begins as brutality on the and a seige against an unknown force spirals into mythic reckoning, where vengeance is more than survival, and rebirth becomes an act of fire.
Blood of the Phoenix is a gothic revenge tragedy of grief, fury, and transcendence. It is a novel of masks ripped away, of cruelty answered, and of the line between monster and god burning to ash.
This is not just a story of violence, it is a revelation of what rises when everything is taken, and how memory itself can become a weapon.
Target Market:
The Nox Sanguinem Universe is aimed at readers of ambitious dark fantasy and horror who crave world-building as intricate as the violence is visceral. It will appeal to those drawn to mythic sagas where ancient orders clash with modern disillusionment, and to readers who prefer their supernatural fiction to be political, historical, and apocalyptic in scope.
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Ideal readers are the ones who want their horror tinged with military grit, their fantasy laced with existential dread, and their thrillers sharpened with the question of whether power corrupts absolutely, or simply reveals what was always there.
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This novel is for readers who see horror and fantasy as vehicles for epic tragedy, political allegory, and the collapse of identity, not just bloodletting and spectacle.
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Comparable Titles:
Comparable in tone and ambition to Justin Cronin’s The Passage and Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan’s The Strain, Legion of Blood explores how vampiric mythology can be reframed through military history, global politics, and the psychology of survival.
It also shares thematic ground with Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, particularly in its exploration of loyalty, betrayal, and the burden of immortality, though written with a harder, more brutal edge.
Like James Rollins or Robert Harris, it blends historical resonance with modern thriller pacing, but with the bleakness and fatalism of Cormac McCarthy and the operatic violence of Clive Barker.
Fans of HBO’s Rome, Game of Thrones, or Black Hawk Down will recognise the mix of brotherhood, betrayal, and battlefield horror, while readers of Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers or Glen Duncan’s The Last Werewolf will be drawn to its feral, militarised take on myth.
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Finally, if you think toxic masculinity and people who appear cool on the surface, but reveal themselves to be absolute dickheads on inspection deserve to get their shit clapped, clamber in and buckle up.