Civil Disobedience, Supernatural Justice: A Henry David Thoreau: Vampire Hunter Novel

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, SUPERNATURAL JUSTICEIn the shadow of the Civil War, Henry David Thoreau—presumed dead from tuberculosis—hunts vampires in the forests of Massachusetts, using his transcendentalist philosophy to track creatures that violate natural harmony. When Lidian Emerson arrives at his isolated cabin with news of her husband Ralph's mysterious disappearance and a letter postmarked New Orleans, Thoreau reluctantly agrees to journey south. Accompanied by Harriet, a young woman partially transformed by vampire attack, they follow a trail of blood leading to Colonel Augustus Graves and his "Bloodied Thirteenth"—Confederate officers who chose undeath over surrender at Appomattox. As they travel deeper into the South, Thoreau is wounded by a vampiric blade, beginning a transformation that challenges everything he believes about nature, transcendence, and existence itself. Meanwhile, evidence suggests Ralph Waldo Emerson has embraced vampirism willingly, perverting transcendentalist principles to justify predation. In New Orleans, Thoreau must confront the terrible choice between his humanity and forbidden passion for Lidian, while stopping Graves from using the mysterious Sanguine Chalice to create an army of the undead. Between the philosophical corruption of his dearest friend and his own metamorphosis, Thoreau discovers that true transcendence may require becoming something beyond human—without surrendering one's humanity. A gothic horror novel that what price is worth paying for immortality, and can philosophical principles survive transformation into darkness?