Bred to Survive

By JC Winchester

An accident at a biochemical facility left a virus racing across the planet. Wary governments, weary of battles from the last pandemic, failed to respond in time to this new threat. As the bodies piled up something odd began to occur. The dead began to rise from their crypts with a thirst for blood.
The lack of action led to the decimation of the human population as this new super predator quickly declared its dominance. Now the human population was scattered across the globe and in dire need of rebuilding their numbers in order to have a chance to continue as a species.
Mikael stumbled upon Robin during one of his hunts, saving her from a vampire attack. What he didn't know was how she would be the key to restoring his hope for humans to survive or that she was only the first to come. Her clan mates await her return and are about to turn his world upside down. Will Mikael accept the challenge of helping these women start to usher in the next generation?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JC Winchester
• Release date: Sep 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005732806

JC Winchester

JC Winchester grew up reading just about anything he could get his hands on, from cereal boxes to the Hardy Boys. He loves most forms of fiction, particularly fantasy and military sci-fi, with some of his favorite authors including John Ringo, Robert Jordan, and Tom Clancy.After several years in the Navy he enrolled in a community college and eventually to a university in the mountains. There he settled down, savoring a life not filled with the noises of the city but instead the sounds of bellowing cattle.When not writing he can usually be found taking care of the horses on his place, riding, hiking, fishing, or the never ending task of splitting firewood.

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Bred to Survive

JC Winchester

Copyright: 2022 J.C. Winchester

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Prologue

In the year 2042 an accident occurred in a biological weapons lab. The country of origin is unknown and the means to determine that are long since gone. Not since the virus raced across the globe. Governments wary of the lingering effects of the previous pandemic were slow to respond even as the body count rapidly piled up. By the time they began to realize the situation was much graver than they’d first thought, a curious thing started to happen.

Some of the dead began to return, rising from their crypts to feast upon the blood of the living. Their primary target was men. Between this and the eventual battles between the two species, the number of male humans dwindled rapidly until the world was left with clans of women banded together to protect themselves and the human species. As the number of men dwindled so did the attacks until the world reached a stalemate between the two populations. The vampires only came for what they needed, and the clans of women focused on the task of rebuilding their culture and those who would carry on that culture.

The only problem was finding the men to rebuild with.

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Robin looked over the display, noting the variety of crosses, silver coins with angels imprinted on them, tattered copies of the bible, and vials of holy water.

Wow, she breathed out softly, That’s quite the collection.

And all useless.

She blinked several times, turning to look Mikael over. What do you mean?

They’re useless against vampires. The church long ago lost its power against evil, rendering its tools useless.

But…how?

Greed. Ignorance of the seven deadly sins. He shrugged. "Something along those lines. Most of the good priests, and there were plenty, have long since passed in the battle. If you stumble across something blessed by one of them, it might still work. Most of these had the misfortune of being owned by a Bishop who loved mansions and BMW’s,