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Cosmos of Blood opens with Martin inspecting Maison de Trieste — a twelve-hundred-kilometre protoplanet hollowed out and landscaped by a century of mining, now home to thousands of vampires and orbiting in the asteroid belt half a billion kilometres from Earth. It is extraordinary, yet Martin is not entirely sure he likes it.
Back on Earth, the geopolitical situation is unravelling in ways that require his particular skill set. A Russian relay station holds military command codes that could change everything, while a faction of powerful humans has been quietly trying to destroy his family for decades. And the North American Republic — a nation so comprehensively mismanaged that even Martin can see the problem — is producing the kind of political conditions that cannot be allowed to continue.
Then Matilda arrives.
The most powerful psychic operative in vampire history, Matilda has been living in Martin's mind like a familiar presence by a fireplace. Together, they execute the finest mission in the series' history. Together, they begin to understand what Martin has been, unknowingly, for centuries. He is the conduit. The centre of a network of six thousand brilliant minds, all flowing through him without his knowledge. Every lucky instinct. Every plan that worked when it shouldn't have. Six thousand people thinking through Martin Trieste, and Martin taking the credit for being a dumb brute who happened to get things right.
And that is all before Éloi's meteoroid streaks across the Australian night sky with a little biological package inside it. A viral package containing chromosome twenty-four, the vampire chromosome. A package that will spread across the entire atmosphere of Earth on the wind.
He should have seen it coming. He never does.
Cosmos of Blood is Book Seven in the Trieste Family Series.
Book One: Bond of Blood · Book Two: Family of Blood · Book Three: Power of Blood · Book Four: Relic of Blood · Book Five: Restoration of Blood · Book Six: World of Blood
THE UNIVERSE WAS NEVER THEIRS TO KEEP.
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Born in and living in Australia, Mark joined the military upon completing high school. With an engineering degree, working on high-technology systems, Mark travelled the world while advancing his knowledge in science and engineering. Following a simple request from a friend to confirm the 'science' in a fictional military book, Mark realised he was well placed to develop his own first military fiction book in the style of Dale Brown.
Mark soon wondered what it would be like in a world where vampires are real. The Trieste Family follows this simple concept.
