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The Light Sublime Trilogy
The Light Sublime Trilogy
Series · 3 books · 2018-2023
By
C.S. Humble
Books in series
#1
The Massacre at Yellow Hill
2018
When George Miller is killed in the mines of Yellow Hill, his wife and children are left to try and piece their lives back together. Tabitha Miller, George’s widow, is thrown into deeper chaos when she discovers that George’s death had nothing to do with the cave’s collapse, but was caused by some terrible predator deep within the earth. His death covered up by the mine’s Proprietor-Jeremiah Hart. In nearby Big Spring, freed slave-turned-occult bounty hunter Gilbert Ptolemy arrives with his adopted son in search of a murderous vampire. New revelations in Yellow Hill draw the duo toward the struggling Miller family, the strange mine, and the horrors lurking within. The Miller and Ptolemy families are pitted against mundane and supernatural forces in this Weird West adventure. Family struggles, heart-stopping gunfights, and nightmare creatures from dark realms abound in this first novel from C.S. Humble, The Massacre at Yellow Hill.
#2
A Red Winter in the West
2020
It is 1871. The landscape of the American West keeps getting colder...and weirder. Three years after the supernatural calamity that befell Yellow Hill, the sole surviving family, The Millers work for Judge Hezekiah Ellison's cattle ranch. Hezekiah Ellison, the mysterious figurehead of The Peregrine Estate. Because of the Miller's experience with the supernatural, the Judge considers offering the Millers positions within the Peregrine Estate. They survived Yellow Hill, after all. They survived the blood and the terror of those events and would make valuable assets against the nightmare creatures stalking the night. Meanwhile, Sir Sigurd of Antioch, a vampire knight of the Kingdom of Scarlet Light, is hellbent on finding his wife's murderers, the Ptolemy family. Sigurd learns Gilbert and Carson Ptolemy were Peregrine Agents for Judge Ellison and so he raises an army of vampire thralls and points them toward the Peregrine Estate's headquarters in Abilene, Texas. Sigurd arrives in Abilene to enact his vengeance only to find that Carson Ptolemy isn't in Abilene at all... Carson Ptolemy is no longer interested in the Peregrine Estate, their secret war, or Judge Ellison's vigilant campaign to protect the American West. Carson Ptolemy wants revenge. The former monster bounty hunter wants revenge against the Society of Prometheus, a strange cult of elites who killed both of Carson's fathers and want nothing more than to bring about absolute oblivion by summoning a dark pantheon of gods they refer to as "The Nine." The threads of the Ptolemy and Miller family fates intertwine again as they face enemies, new and old, of tremendous and diabolical power in the sequel to the 2018 PenCraft Award-Winning Novel The Massacre at Yellow Hill. A Red Winter in the West is the second book in C.S. Humble's Survivors Trilogy.
#3
The Light of a Black Star
2023
It is 1872. Annie Miller and the valiant members of the Peregrine Estate did all they could in Chicago to try and stop the Society of Prometheus from unleashing their terrible gods—The Nine—into our world. While they managed to save Carson Ptolemy from the occult society’s ritualistic sacrifice, they failed to stop the ritual entirely. And thus, the ritual half-completed, an unknowable celestial body has set itself over the Sun, casting it into perpetual eclipse, throwing the world deeper into the shuddering cold and blackness of an unending, pestilential winter. The sunless world brings to bear the great and terrible armies of The Red Kingdom, the hidden body of vampires who have decided that the eclipse is heralding their time to rise in full force and conqueror. The kingdom’s sovereign monarch, and master of all vampires, Kristian, brings all his strength to bear out of the Astolat Mountain range in Colorado, beginning a war between humanity and vampires. Annie and Carson, their lives now fully knotted together as members of the Peregrine Society and dear friends, work together with their allies to strike back against the vampiric horde, all while striving to set the world right in an epic conclusion of C.S. Humble’s That Light Sublime trilogy.
Author
C.S. Humble
Author · 9 books