Stargods, Vampires, and Dragon-wolves

An inordinate role reversal of the most bizarre kind! Imagine a vampire priest, Fr. Andrew Mark Phillips, and his two ex-Peace Corps assistants, Jude Marlowe and Margaret Benford, journey to a remote village in the Philippines and encounter the Daralingas (Blood Hunters) a Dragon-wolf shape-shifting and blood-sucking tribe, whose lineage sprang from the Stargods, also known to Earthlings as the Shining Ones. From the Dara Saga with a new perspective of aliens, vampires, and werewolves, mixed with adventure, romance, tragedy, faith, and hope.

In Book 1: Stargods, Vampires, and Dragon-wolves, the Dark Age of Enlightened Vampires has arrived. Fr. Andrew Mark Phillips, converted in the early 1800s by the mystical Padre Chacon Levardee of San Juan Capistrano, was a missionary evangelist, who trekked to a remote mountain village in the Cordillera Mountains of Northern Luzon, Philippines on Bishop Donald Kadiz’s dire request. Accompanied by two young, attractive, and idealistic ex-Peace Corps volunteers, Jude Marlowe and Margaret Benford, Fr. Andrew encountered the Daralinga tribe, which unfortunately meant “Blood Hunters.” As descendants of the Stargods, this tribe had the power to shape-shift into “Dragon-wolves” with the penchant for human blood, and they possessed mysterious and powerful relics: a katana (Japanese sword) and a crystal skull originally molded by the Stargod, Tatsulong. Jude Marlowe was caught up in a love triangle that resulted in his death; Margaret Benford was impregnated by a Daralinga warrior named Gerardo, and Fr. Andrew was exposed of his true nature and hunted down by ex-vampire minions, Nicholas Paige and Priscilla Drake from America, which climaxed to an inevitable confrontation.

My name is G.T. Rabanal, a Filipino American citizen administrative assistant at English & Comparative Literature department, San Jose State University and visually disabled. I have completed two manuscripts out of a total of 4 books, which I named "Dara (Blood) Saga." My genre is a mixed bag, adult fantasy, suspense, historical fiction, and apocalyptic with religious themes. My vision of the Dara Saga focused on the conflict between good and evil within and without. I always was fascinated with the vampire and priest conflict. Taking it to another level, the conflict within and without of the two main protagonists, vampire Fr. Andrew Mark Phillips and Shaman Guardian dragon-wolf, Amboy Daralinga Marlowe, was an enjoyable, thrilling, and sometimes heart-wrenching task to write and explore the possibilities, real people with unfortunate circumstances and genetic dispositions.