Claiming Starlight – The Apocalypse Keys.
This is such a big, beautiful, rambunctious world – The Apocolypse Keys, a Ruined Earth Story.
It started with Katie and the Reaper on Wattpad – which is unfinished.
Katie is a young girl of 14 at the start. She must save her mother from soul sucking zombies as they trek between settlements of survivors in a world torn apart by the opening of time/space/dimensional gates. She has a savior complex a mile wide and thinks everyone else around her is clueless.
The year is 2014 - the gates opened at midnight, between 1999 and 2000. That's right, Y2K happend and it was really, really bad.
Trapped and cornered by zombies, they are saved by a mysterious, otherworldly creature that looks like a dark elf crossed with a vampire. He consumes the magic in the Zombies then continues on his journey without stopping for conversation.
In fact, the Reaper appears a lot in Katies life, every time she is almost about to die. He is a creature created by elves to walk the lands as an executioner of gods. She doesn’t know why he always shows up for her, but he does.
The Reaper is reviled by all, from human to the supernatural, as an eater of power. He is hunted by the sorcerers, who woke him from his sleep with the intention of exploiting him for their own purposes. Even though their plan backfired on them, they still chase him. Katie finds The Reaper after an attack. He looks dead. She is sure he’s dead, but she can fix that. She believes he is important to save the world from total implosion, so she will fix that.
Her mother, Marie, gifted with the healing powers of an herb witch, has found a place for Katie and herself in a werewolf settlement. She believes that The Reaper is the cause of Apocolypse Day and the death of Katie’s Dad and hates the creature almost as much as she loves and wants to protect her precious only daughter.
The Reaper appears in Claiming Starlight as the god eater who just happens to consume the merrow fertility goddess, Morghanna, that messed with the men in Micah’s family. He prowls through the city like a storm of thunder and finds the woman at the end of a trail of blood sacrifices. She broke an ancient law of innocent blood, and he makes her pay the price.
I know readers wanted more of Sophie and Micah’s story and I’ve been trying to think of how to do that, when I really want to focus more on the world around them, rather than their romantic happily ever after arch.
I am a mood writer, in the way that some people are mood readers.
That said, I plan to remove Claiming Starlight from Kindle Unlimited (Along with the Orki books) and continue them in a chapter by chapter serial format here and on ream as time allows.
I wish I had time for everything I wanted to write!