Khurxoc [Mīkstie vāki]

In a divided, demoralized America overwhelmed with prejudice and violence, the vampiric creature Khurxoc is in his element: He feeds on the dark psychic energy of irrational hate, draining it from the minds of criminals and bigots and turning them into empathic human beings.His possession of a politically explosive asset, “The Chalice,” provokes domestic terrorists into abducting Ashleigh Page—a young actress believed to share a lifelong connection to him—and demanding it in exchange for her safe return. As the NYPD and FBI race to find her, Khurxoc uses his shapeshifting abilities to adopt multiple identities in an effort to rescue her before White Nationalist zealots can seize The Chalice and set off a racial holy war that will destroy the government of the United States.But Khurxoc’s human identity, Jonathan Riley—a fugitive on the run from a criminal frame-up—is locked in a grim psychological battle to thwart his ultra-violent alter ego from gaining control of him, a battle he cannot afford to lose without losing everything he holds dear… Ashleigh, most of all.He can be anyone, anywhere, anytime. So…Who else is Khurxoc? NYPD Detective Mike Juhl? Military engineer Jason Stark? Sketchy CIA mole Luther Grissom? One of Ashleigh’s celebrity co-stars? Or is he all of them? Khurxoc is a rudely entertaining mystery-melodrama packed with double-, triple-, and quadruple-crosses that will keep readers guessing until, literally, the last line. (Contains graphic language, sexual situations, and violence.)