ASIN: B07G73RXXP
Publisher: Jason J. Patrick
Pages: 329
Malik Ashcroft is an eighteen-year-old Black teenager who is made into a soul vampire the night he finishes studying for final exams. Xavier, the vampire who creates him, tells him that vampires must bury their human bodies deep underground to protect the soul still within. Xavier calls him a “rarity” and that he is “beautiful”, but Malik cringes at the thought of joining Xavier’s family of vampires.Xavier, created by a wayward, traveling soul vampire who only kills the workers of iniquity, was born in 1820s America. Birthed on a small slave plantation in antebellum Alabama, Xavier suffers mentally and physically because he is Sam Carroll’s son, the white master of the plantation. Although his mother, Sarah, initially tells him to be proud of his heritage as the son of slave-owner, Ms. Hannah, Mr. Carroll’s wife, succeeds at getting him sent to the fields to toil as a field slave. ...
