Amid the Vastness of All Else
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The Light of a Black Star
by C. S. Humble
Part 1 of the Amid the Vastness of All Else series
It is 1872.Annie Miller and the valiant members of the Peregrine Estate did all they could in Chicago to try and stop the Society of Prometheus from unleashing their terrible godsThe Nineinto our world. While they managed to save Carson Ptolemy from the occult society's ritualistic sacrifice, they failed to stop the ritual entirely. And thus, the ritual half-completed, an unknowable celestial body has set itself over the Sun, casting it into perpetual eclipse, throwing the world deeper into the shuddering cold and blackness of an unending, pestilential winter.The sunless world brings to bear the great and terrible armies of The Red Kingdom, the hidden body of vampires who have decided that the eclipse is heralding their time to rise in full force and conqueror. The kingdom's sovereign monarch, and master of all vampires, Kristian, brings all his strength to bear out of the Astolat Mountain range in Colorado, beginning a war between humanity and vampires.Annie and Carson, their lives now fully knotted together as members of the Peregrine Society and dear friends, work together with their allies to strike back against the vampiric horde, all while striving to set the world right in an epic third entry in C.S. Humble's Amid the Vastness of All Else Saga.
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A Red Winter in the West
by C. S. Humble
Part 1 of the Amid the Vastness of All Else series
It is 1871. The landscape of the American West keeps getting colder and weirder in this highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning novel The Massacre At Yellow Hill.Three years after the supernatural calamity that befell Yellow Hill, the Miller family finds themselves living in Abilene,Texas. There, the new life they hoped to find has been fraught with change and hardship. As a family they struggle to endure the challenges of time, circumstance, and the pestilential cold smothering the Texas landscape.In those years Carson Ptolemy's life has changed too. No longer under the tutelage and provision of his father Gilbert Ptolemy, Carson directs the whole sum of his anger and young courage toward destroying the Society of Prometheus. But the occult society is old and powerful and vicious, and every day that passes brings them closer to ushering into the world a pantheon of nightmare gods known as - The Nine.The fated threads of the Ptolemy and Miller family intertwine again as they face enemies new and old, casting all their strength against beings of tremendous and malevolent power in this action-packed horror adventure set on the American frontier. A Red Winter in the West is the second book in C.S. Humble's Amid the Vastness of All Else Saga.
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The Massacre At Yellow Hill
by C. S. Humble
Part 1 of the Amid the Vastness of All Else series
When George Miller is killed in the mines of Yellow Hill, his wife and children are left to try and piece their lives back together. Tabitha Miller, George's widow, is thrown into deeper chaos when she discovers that George's death had nothing to do with the cave's collapse, but was caused by some terrible predator deep within the earth. His death covered up by the mine's Proprietor-Jeremiah Hart.In nearby Big Spring, freed slave-turned-occult bounty hunter Gilbert Ptolemy arrives with his adopted son in search of a murderous vampire. New revelations in Yellow Hill draw the duo toward the struggling Miller family, the strange mine, and the horrors lurking within.The Miller and Ptolemy families are pitted against mundane and supernatural forces in this Weird West adventure. Family struggles, heart-stopping gunfights, and nightmare creatures from dark realms abound in this award-winning novel from C.S. Humble.
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San Antonio Mission
by C. S. Humble
Part 1 of the Amid the Vastness of All Else series
Gilbert Ptolemy a freed slave turned monster bounty hunter is sent by the Peregrine Estate to recruit a group of recently emancipated cattle hands, freed in the wake of Granger's Emancipation Enforcement on June 19, 1865. Joined by fellow agent Sarah Lockhart and fame-seeking gunhand Oliver Maine, Gilbert knows the work will be hard but nothing could prepare him for what they find.Inside a mission in San Antonio, Sarah and Gilbert discover the depth of human horror an act of cruelty that demands vengeance. Bound by grief and fury, Gilbert and Sarah set out to hunt down those responsible, their path marked by bloodshed and a love neither of them expected.San Antonio Mission is a novella brimming with heart and vengeance. The second book in the Peregrine Estate Trilogy, a tale of violence, raw emotion, and the impossible love that blooms in its wake.
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To Carry a Body to Its Resting Place
by C. S. Humble
Part 4 of the Amid the Vastness of All Else series
When Ashley Sutliff receives word from his brother Willow that their father is deathly ill, he leaves behind his life as a gambler in St. Louis and returns home burdened with regret and the weight of old wounds. Two years away couldn't erase the damage he left behind, and now Ashley must face the fractured ties that once held his family together. With their father fading, Ashley learns of a promise his father made years earlier a debt owed to the mysterious Peregrine Estate. Dedicated to preventing a bloody war between rival werewolf packs in the Little Kansas Barony, the Peregrine Estate calls on Ashley, Willow, and their brother Ellery to help fulfill that long-standing promise.A sharp, deeply moving story told in rich, evocative prose, To Carry a Body to Its Resting Place is a stirring novel. The first novel in the Peregrine Estate Trilogy, a tale exploring duty, forgiveness, and the danger of waiting too long to say what matters most.
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Baroness of the Eastern Seaboard
by C. S. Humble
Part 6 of the Amid the Vastness of All Else series
In a world governed by steel and smoke, Larry Cornish and Sven Erickson live by the code of the Gunfighters Guild an elite order of twenty-five deadly gunfighters, each marked by a numbered Silver Pin, where becoming the One Pin is everything, and nothing is allowed to stop the gunfighter game.In the Guild, where advancement comes only by challenging those ranked above you, their love is more than forbidden it is impossible. For one to rise, the other must fall. Determined to break them apart, the Guild's iron rules demand challenge or forfeit.As a way of buying time, the two are forced to part ways. Sven becomes a mercenary for the Peregrine Estate, tasked with hunting down a mysterious woman known only as the Baroness of the Eastern Seaboard a mission that leads to his capture. Meanwhile, Larry is drawn into a brutal mission of vengeance, partnering with a ruthless Guild rival to hunt a gang of men who assaulted a Paramour a man protected by a powerful Madam whose influence stretches far beyond her brothel's walls.As their paths twist toward violence and betrayal, Larry and Sven face more than just death they risk losing their love, their future, and each other. With time running out, Larry must race to save Sven before the Baroness's vicious appetites cost him his life.Baroness of the Eastern Seaboard is a high-romance, supernatural adventure yarn. The third and final book in the Peregrine Estate Trilogy, a tale of passion, vengeance, and the fearless pursuit of love in a world determined to destroy it.
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