Title: Bad Blood
Author: Nicky Peacock
Release Date: 5th September 2014
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“I
am Britannia. I am your protector. I will fend off the hungry hordes of undead
hands that reach toward you. I am your steadfast defender. I will stand between
you and the zombie masses as they try to taste your flesh. I am strong,
unyielding, and dedicated to your survival. All I ask from you… is your blood.”
A
five-hundred-year-old bloody game of vengeance will need to be put on hold if
vampires are to survive the zombie uprising. Britannia and Nicholas, bitter
enemies and the only two surviving vampires left in London, have to work
together to save un-infected humans and deliver them safely to a vampire
stronghold in the Scottish Highlands. Unable to drink the zombie ‘bad blood’,
the remaining vampires need the humans to stay alive. But will the vampires
tell the survivors who they are and what they want from them? Will Britannia be
able to hold back her vengeance for the greater good? Is survivor Josh the
reincarnation of Britannia’s murdered true love? And can she bring herself to
deliver him to the ‘safe’ hold? Survival instincts run deep, but bad blood can
run deeper.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I guess I’ve always been a storyteller,
not in a ‘liar liar pants on fire’ kind of way, although I do work in
advertising! When I was little, kids would crowd around me in the playground
and I’d tell them tales of blood soaked horror filled with vampires,
werewolves, ghosts and more. Yes, most would consider me a disturbed child, but
my playmates couldn’t help themselves, they’d huddle around me every break time
like an ancient tribe feeding off the fear; and that’s how I learned that
horror stories hold a certain power, no matter what some might say, everyone is
addicted to a good scare, especially if it is somewhat rooted safely in
unrealistic beings… or are they unrealistic?
Writing was really a natural
progression. Right now I’m obsessed with writing: a YA Urban Fantasy novel, a
Paranormal Romance novella series, and several short horror stories! So I’m
currently living in a functional fiction coma – and loving it!
I’ve so far been published in 5
countries: USA, UK, Australia, Ireland and Canada and had short stories
included in 40 anthologies with over 17 publishers.
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EXCERPT
We ran to the hospital. On the way, we
encountered hardly anyone, alive or dead. Where were they all? When we arrived
at the hospital car park, I understood. Zombies were pack animals. A massive
crowd of them were crammed in and around the main building like they were
waiting for a concert to start, all barely paying attention to their
surroundings and seemingly swaying against the force of gravity. The other
thing was the smell. When watching horror films filled with shuffling zombies,
the horror came from their ghastly looks—the reminder that death has a tight
grip on us all, well, most of us. But what the filmmakers should focus on—if
they could—was the acidic rank odor zombies gave off. They had been dead barely
twenty-four hours. It took a normal human body at least thirty-six hours to
really start to smell, and that was with a vampire’s heightened senses. These
guys smelled like they’d been out in the sun for three weeks covered in rubbish
and besieged by wily maggots. They were mostly intact, though. Maybe this
hospital had been Zombie Ground Zero. Most had turned so quickly their comrades
hadn’t had time to feed.
“Maybe we should try a less populated
target.” Nicholas twitched his nose and turned away from me to dry retch.
“Maybe you should grow a pair.”
“Maybe you should act like a lady.” He
now had his hands on his hips, squaring up for yet another argument.
“Acting like a lady isn’t going to help
now, is it? What do you want me to do? Drop my handkerchief in front of the
zombies and watch them fight one another to scoop it up for me? Moron!”
“Always to the ‘nth degree with you,
isn’t it?”
“Shut up. Look, the doors are holding,
and they’re outside, not inside, which means there must be some people left in
there alive to have barricaded this place so tight.”
“Or maybe there are just more zombies in
there.”
“Well, there’s definitely a blood bank
in there, and that’ll help matters no end!”
Nicholas looked thoughtful then nodded.
He of course didn’t want to actually say aloud that I’d had a good idea. “So,
how do we get past them?”
I assumed it was a rhetorical question,
so I started down to the car park entrance, where most of the zombies were
mobbing. I opened the outer door as quietly as possible.
“Ladies first,” Nicholas whispered in my
ear.
“I thought we’d agreed I wasn’t a lady.”
And with that, I shoved him as hard as I could into the throbbing throng of
zombies.
***GIVEAWAY***
One lucky winner will receive eBook copies of all 28 books! That's a lot
of supernatural Halloween reading featuring: vampires, mermaids, reapers,
werewolves, demons, gods, dragons, ghosts, witches, a phoenix and much more!
Books included are:
Soul Taken/ Soul Possessed/ Soul Betrayed by Kaitlyn Duncan
Crown of Ice by Vicki L Weavil
Tangled Tides/ Dangerous Depths by Karen Amanda Hooper
Shadows of Fate by Angela Dennis
Divinity by Michelle L Johnson
Call Me Grim by Elizabeth Holloway
Darkness / Darkness Reigns by L M Justus
The Guardian of Bastet by Jacqueline M Battisti
My Sisters Reaper/ My Tethered Soul by Dorothy Dreyer
Soul Bound/ Soul Deep by Anne Hope
Daughter of Chaos by Jenn McConnel
Wicked Hunger by Delsheree Gladden
Shadow soul/ Shadow Heir by Kaitlyn Davis
Into the Fire by Asheynn Drake
Predator by Janice Gable Bashman
Whispers in the Darkness by Vanessa Barger
A Murder of Magpies by Sarah Bromley
Prayer for the Dead/ Aeonian Kiss by Nicki Scalise
Keeper of the Lost Souls/ Keeper of the Innocent by Kristy Centeno
Special Character
Giveaway
Would you
like to be a character in the Battle of the Undead books? Well here's your
opportunity! Nicky Peacock is giving away the chance for you to create a
character of your very own to star alongside: Britannia, Nicholas, Josh, Jack
and all the others in the next novels. You could be immortalized forever in a
YA book! All you have to do is send an email entitled
'Bad Blood Character Giveaway' with your character on to:
battleoftheundead (at) hotmail (dot) com Please include their name,
gender, description, and whether they are a vampire, zombie, Vambie or human -
and don't forget to say whether they are good or bad. Nicky will choose
the best character and get in touch with the winner directly. Deadline for
entries is the 30th November 2014.
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