ISBN: 1886766452        Retail Price: $9.95

AMERICAN LEGACY BOOKSTORE

RESPECTED PSYCHOTHERAPIST’S OCCULT NOVEL
CONTINUES AMERICA’S FASCINATION WITH MYTHOLOGY
INTO THE 21ST CENTURY

The battle between good and evil, ethics, adversity and political corruptness
wrapped around a suspenseful, edge of your seat thriller.

Beliefs in vampires inhabit cultures all over the world. There is some version of a vampire myth in every culture, from the Azemen of South America to the Wampir of Russia.  The vampire has become an archetype in every sense of the original definition by Jung. It is not surprising there has been an abundance of television shows, movies and classic novels like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Interview with the Vampire and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which have all garnered a large following. Now a new, modern and updated version of the vampire genre can be read in Valerie Hoffman’s new book, Vampire Royalty: The Rebellion, a stunning literary look at today’s society wrapped around mythology’s greatest player.

Vampire Royalty: The Rebellion follows the story of two brothers, one who politically manipulates his way into the White House, and the other who fears this most evil and cunning predator may gain access to the highest authority, using his position to dominate America and eventually, the world. His odyssey into the world of politics is hindered by his brother’s thirst for power and sadistic scheme to revive his hidden and dark practices.

The brothers are what legend refers to as vampires and come from the same unholy disposition, that place which allows them to function for hundreds of years, assimilating into humanity while walking a fine line between their need for life sustaining nutrients and suppliers. One is compelled to purify his people while protecting his race and humanity from the corruption of the other’s absolute supremacy, and he is also the only one with the power to put an end to his brother’s depraved schemes unless he uses the one vulnerability against him—his newfound love.

Hoffman’s book is teeming with sophisticated and mutli-layered symbolism. Hoffman, blind since the age of nineteen, relates to the world in which we live in a unique and interesting way; employing rare imagination in a modern context. Her vampires become a powerful symbol of the struggle between good and evil and their thirst is a metaphor for the insatiable greed of man. They serve not as the literal horror in some ‘night of the living dead’ reconstruction, but as a metaphor for various aspects of contemporary life -sexuality, alienation, power, acceptance and secularized evil -- and run parallel to some of the current issues in today’s society – ethics, adversity and political corruptness.