SCARFACE
THE BEGINNING

In the politically charged years of the early 1980s many immigrants escaped a nightmarish existence under Castro's rule and fled Cuba for America. One immigrant would cut a bloody path of destruction across the Florida landscape in a rampage fueled by drugs, rage, and paranoia. In a dark vision of the American Dream gone wrong, Oliver Stone and Brian De Palma created a classic character in Tony Montana in their re-envisioning of the mobster tale Scarface.

But Tony Montana's story didn't begin there. In these two new novels from DH Press we will take you inside the life of Montana, going back to the years before his arrival in America to see what events shaped him into the man he became and what dire choices set him on the course of madness that would lead to a carnage-filled conclusion in the streets of Miami.

The two books in this series chart the previously unknown story of one of the most popular cinema anti-heroes of recent memory--Tony Montana, known as Scarface. Starting in the years before his arrival in America in the 1980s, these novels will be true to the spirit of the film that has captured the imaginations of more than three generations of movie goers.

After the destruction of all the topside master vampires and the death and resurrection of her council-level vampire lover, Damali is called before the Council of the Neterus to answer for her actions. It is there that she discovers there are consequences even she could not foresee. She also learns that the consort of the Un-Named One, Lilith, has come up from the seventh level to set the affairs of the Dark Realms in order. However, Lilith has a hidden agenda of her own and it involves the unborn child Damali thought had been taken from her. The news devastates Damali until a cold and deadly determination leads her to map out a plan for Lilith's destruction. An evil force beyond recognition, Damali's newest nemesis literally brings men to their knees. But Damali will not be stopped---not even by someone as dangerously powerful as Lilith. It is a battle that spills over into the streets and involves the people Damali has sworn to protect, leaving fewer standing before it's all over.

After a civil war fought in Hell, rogue vampires and deadly were-demons Damali Richards and Carlos Rivera (now a council-level vampire) finally have the chance to explore their deeper, more sensual love.  But Carlos and Damali should know by now that there is no rest for the saviors of the known world.  One of the four topside master vampires has stolen one of the seven keys—the living blood of Christ—that opens the sixth seal as foretold in Revelations.  He who possesses the key and the seal can decide the outcome of the Final War, a. k. a. Armageddon. 

With a vampire in possession of the holy key, the balance between the Light and the Dark has been shifted.  Even Damali is deeply affected:  she is now sporting fangs.  In order to retrieve the key, Carlos and Damali must enter a web of vampire politics and intrigue. 

And when Carlos’s secret drug, Oblivion, finds its way into the hands of enemies, the seventh level of Hell comes calling, too.
           
The Bitten is an unforgettable urban vampire thriller.

L.A. Banks goes one step further to tie her novella to the highly popular
Vampire Huntress Legend™ series.

Here, L.A. Banks tells the back-story of one of the team Guardians, Jake Rider. It explores how he became a Guardian, and the love he lost on the road to finding the Neteru's team.

A Neteru—a hunter or a heroine—is born every thousand years to lead the Warriors of Light as they fight against the Dark Realms. Damali Richards is the millennium Neteru, the one who will play a pivotal role in the Final War. The Warriors of Light have been waiting for her and the Dark Realms will do anything to possess or destroy her. What they do not take into account is the man who will love her.

Damali has been to Hell and back—literally—and she is not eager to repeat the trip. A Vampire civil war has been averted, but there were casualties, and she believes that Carlos Rivera, her former lover turned master vampire, is one of them. His death has not only shaken her emotions, but has weakened her powers as well. Then Damali gets word of horrific killings in Brazil. The vampire civil war left a small door to Hell open, and new and dangerous foes have risen from the Dark Realms. The leader, a deadly female, is set on a path of destruction, but her blood lust hides a nefarious plan, and the resurrected Carlos Rivera is at the heart of it.

However, Damali is not about to lose her man a second time, so she plans to send this old girl right back to the hell she came from—no matter who stands in her way.

A battle is brewing in the underworld, and at the center of it all lies Damali Richards, spoken word artist and vampire huntress. But she is not just any huntress: she is the millennium Neteru, a woman so powerful that the vampire world is about to start a war—one that threatens to spread onto her streets—in order to possess her.

Fallon Nuit, a rogue vampire who is one of the most powerful Damali has ever encountered, has allied himself with the deadly Amanthra demons in order to claim her. But the Vampire Council has plans for her as well. And now an unlikely variable has entered the equation: an ex-lover turned vampire with an agenda of his own. Damali must risk trusting him
once more if they are to survive.

MINION

Book One of the
Vampire Huntress™ Series

There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night. Here is an account of her legend….

All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Now she is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons—predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. But Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires have been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music. Strange attacks have also erupted within the club drug-trafficking network and drawn the attention of the police. But these killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. No neat puncture marks in the neck to show where the life’s blood has been drained from the body.

Instead these bodies have been mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before. Damali soon discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire she has ever met, and this seductive beast is coming for her next. But his unholy intentions have also drawn the focus of other hellish dark forces. Soon Damali finds herself being pulled deeper into the vast and horrifying vampire world.