Karen Payton Holt

Earth Walker Karen Payton Holt

Doctor Connor is the hero of the Fire & Ice Series: Awakening, Survival, Earth Walker, Heart of Stone, and Invasion. Think 'Twilight' meets 'Game of Thrones', with a dark twist, and you are in the right mindset to enter the world of Fire & Ice. Earth Walker is BOOK THREE and the adventure continues, accelerating into the unknown as all thrilling rides do! Buckle up and hold on tight. Two years have passed since Rebekah gave birth to the hybrid child, Seren. Her development continues to scare and fascinate Connor and Rebekah. Now the London Hive vampires know a hybrid birth is possible, they become restless; Connor is being pressed hard for answers and Julian is losing control at council hearings. Connor and Anthony ruthlessly enforce the twenty-five mile exclusion zone around the eco-shelter community Seren and Rebekah still call home. The body count is mounting and something has to crack under the pressure... but, when the implosion comes, Connor is blindsided. The attack comes from places he could never imagine. As events spiral out of control, two groups journey across continents and come together in a last ditch rescue effort - each drawn to the eye of the storm. Julian can't dissuade Connor from his chosen course, where recklessness crosses the boundary into fatalistic. The shock waves of discovery shatter Connor's world. Everything outside the London Vampire Hive is unpredictable, brutal even; the fate of humans, Greg and Seth, are tied to that of Julian and Connor, and the stakes become overwhelming when Connor's psychic connection to Seren is infiltrated by an unknown presence. Fighting for their lives is the spector hanging over them all. 'Succeed or die trying' becomes the grim mantra which haunts them. and Principal Julian is losing control at council hearings. Even though, Connor and Anthony ruthlessly enforce the twenty-five mile exclusion zone around the eco-shelter community Seren and Rebekah still call home, attacks from disgruntled hive members are growing in both frequency and ferocity. Seren's growth rate accelerates in response, as though her survival instinct knows that younglings are vulnerable. The body count is mounting and something has to crack under the pressure... but, when the implosion does come, Connor is blindsided. The attack comes from places he could never imagine. As events spiral out of control, two groups journey across continents and come together in a last ditch rescue effort - each drawn to the eye of the storm. Julian can't dissuade Connor from his chosen course, where recklessness crosses the boundary into fatalistic. The shock waves of discovery shatter Connor's world. Everything outside the London Vampire Hive is unpredictable, brutal even; the fate of the human Marines, Greg and Seth, are tied to that of Julian and Connor, and the stakes become overwhelming when Connor's psychic connection to Seren is infiltrated by an unknown presence. Fighting for all their lives is the specter hanging over them all. 'Succeed or die trying' becomes the grim mantra which haunts them.