Blake the Demon Hunter

Blake Michaelson won the homecoming game beneath the Friday-night lights, but before sunrise, one friend would be dead, another would be missing, and Blake would discover that monsters were real. Seventeen-year-old Blake knows how to handle pressure. As Willow Creek High's openly gay star quarterback, he has spent years carrying the expectations of his teammates, his family, and a small town that watches his every move. But when a late-night drive ends in a brutal vampire attack, Blake's ordinary life is torn apart. One friend is killed and transformed into a bloodthirsty creature, another is dragged into the darkness, and an ancient power awakens inside Blake, granting him supernatural strength, heightened senses, rapid healing, and a terrifying connection to the archangel Michael. His football coach, Marcus Vance, knows exactly what Blake is becoming. Beneath their high school lies the secret headquarters of the Helsing Council, an organization that has spent generations hunting vampires, demons, werewolves, and other creatures hidden from humanity. Blake is not simply their newest recruit; his angelic bloodline may be the weapon their enemies have been waiting centuries to claim. Now this gay teen supernatural hero must become a high school monster hunter while balancing football, friendship, grief, faith, love, and the fear that he may not be strong enough to save everyone. As an ancient vampire conspiracy closes around Willow Creek, Blake must decide what kind of man-and what kind of hunter-he will become. Because the greatest monsters are not always the creatures waiting in the dark; sometimes they are the fear, shame, and lies people are taught to carry within themselves. Blending young adult vampire horror, LGBTQ dark fantasy, biblical angel mythology, small-town paranormal horror, and supernatural coming-of-age adventure, Blake the Demon Hunter is an approximately 92,500-word story about choosing courage, accepting who you are, and discovering that real strength does not mean fighting alone.