Word to Dreams: Promo/Excerpt of The Prophecy (The Children of Lilith, Volume 3)

The Prophecy (The Children of Lilith Volume 3) by author C. David Belt is a LDS, Horror, Vampire novel. Let's take a look at The Prophecy and the two preceding books in the series.

Volume 3, The Prophecy:

For 6,000 years, Lilith and her Children have walked the earth, hunting, preying, seducing, corrupting, ruling from the shadows...until now.

An ancient prophecy, spoken by Adam, Lilith's grandfather, foretells her doom. She will do anything, corrupt any innocent, murder countless mortals to save herself. To survive, she knows she must destroy Carl and Moira Morgan. The war has begun. And Carl and Moira know, win or lose, it all ends here.

The Prophecy Excerpt:

“‘Sons of God! Brood of Light-Bearer who fell!’ That is how I would render the first half.”

The message is in plain text. The email address looks like a random mix of letters and numbers, and the email provider is one that supports anonymous accounts.

I’ve been collaborating with colleagues across the country and in the U.K., Israel, and Egypt for more than a week. We’ve been trying to decipher the twenty-four syllables of Adamic (at least I assume it’s Adamic) that Lilith uttered at the battle at the farm. My colleagues are experts in Hebrew, Arabic, Egyptian, Greek, and Latin. We’ve been exchanging emails ever since I asked for their help.

Of course, I’ve told them I’m not at liberty to reveal the source just yet, but I’m certain it’s a language that predated all others, a protolanguage. In the beginning, some refused to collaborate on the project because I wouldn’t reveal my source, because I was being cryptic. But eventually, most couldn’t resist the lure of the puzzle. That’s something we all share in common, my colleagues and I: we can’t resist the potential, the lure of hidden knowledge.

And of course, I can’t tell my academic friends that the source is a native speaker. I also can’t tell them that the text is an outburst from a six-thousand-year-old vampire after she’d been impaled by the very spear that once pierced Christ’s side, a spear being wielded by a former Nazi assassin who is now a repentant vampire.

In other words, I can’t betray my friends.

Volume 2, The Penitent:

In 6,000 years, no vampire has ever defied Lilith, Queen of the vampires...until now.

Moira and Carl Morgan have saved the city from the horror of Michael and his evil wives, but victory has come at terrible cost. And there are consequences to every choice, every victory. Word has spread that someone has broken Lilith's power, that someone has defied the ancient Queen of the vampires. And she's not happy about it.

Volume 1, The Unwilling:

In all the 6,000 years that the Children of Lilith have walked among us, there has never been an unwilling vampire...until now.

The Unwilling is the story of the world’s first and only unwilling vampire. Set in present-day Utah, it’s the story of Carl Morgan, a decent LDS man who loses his wife and children in an automobile accident. Then he witnesses the murder of his wayward sister at the hands of the beautiful and mysterious Rebecca. When the police can’t find the killer, he goes searching for her. He finds Rebecca, but she takes away everything. She transforms him into the world’s FIRST and ONLY unwilling vampire. Vampirism is a choice, and you’re choosing to become a serial killer, because you can only survive on HUMAN blood, not animal blood. Carl is unwilling to murder to survive and he really doesn’t understand what has happened to him. He’s found and mentored by Moira MacDonald, a two-hundred and seventy year-old Penitent (repentant vampire). She teaches him how to survive without killing, how to stay true to his temple covenants (in spite of his condition), and how to get justice for his murdered sister. But to Moira? Carl’s very existence as an unwilling vampire turns her world upside-down, because Carl is an impossibility. In the 6,000 years that the Children of Lilith have walked the earth, there has never been an unwilling vampire, because eternal damnation cannot be forced on someone: they must choose it, just as Moira did. And yet, there’s Carl. If he can exist somehow, there must be something about Moira’s condition that she doesn’t know. Is it possible that, after two and a half centuries of searching for redemption and repentance with no hope, perhaps there might somehow be a way back? Meanwhile, Rebecca’s vampire Master, Michael, plans to unleash a wave of new vampires on the city. Carl and Moira must stop him before countless innocents are slaughtered.

Author Bio

C. David Belt was born in Evanston, WY. As a child, he lived and traveled extensively around the Far East. He served as an LDS missionary in South Korea and southern California (Korean-speaking). He graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Aerospace Studies. He served as a B-52 pilot in the US Air Force and as an Air Weapons Controller in the Washington Air National Guard. When he is not writing, he sings in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and works as a software engineer. He collects swords (mostly Scottish), axes, spears, and other medieval weapons and armor. He and his wife have six children and live in Utah with an eclectus parrot named Mork (who likes to jump on the keyboard when David is writing).

Author Links