Shards of a Lost Love

2018 Catfish Literary Festival Featured AuthorIf you fear nothing it means you have nothing left you fear losing. After twenty-two hundred years of existence all of Katja's fears had already come true. Life held no joy, power no sway, and love had died along with her heart centuries ago. Much like the tenets on her sword, another item long since relegated to a mental vault filled with objects that no longer existed, strength and wisdom were all that her station as second seat on the Vampire Council required. Katja had never managed to entirely silence the voice of compassion inside of her though. That idealistic conviction was a glowing weakness in a dark world but it was also the sole thing that kept her from believing she had become the cruel and indifferent being she was often forced to act like. That belief had dimmed to the point that even Katja began to question which was the mask and which was her true self. Awakened by a dream and given the chance to finally end the debate Katja seizes the opportunity with a fevered resolve. Across the continent, from the darkest depths of the shadows, her moves have not gone unnoticed and unknowingly she has walked into a web that has been almost a century in the making.