Sunset: Pact Arcanum: Book One (59 page)

Kevin Daniels
(Human): President of the United States

Derek Cochrane
(Human): Director, Central Intelligence Agency

T
IMELINE

1504     Lorcan born

1525     Lorcan turned

1601     Connor dies

1792     Rafael born

1815     Rafael turned

1993     Rory, Takeshi, and Anaba born

2001     Scott born

2003     Nick born

2008     Sentinel assault on Court of Shadows defeated

2015     Rory, Takeshi, and Anaba kindle; Jeremy born

2016     Toby born

2020     Pact Arcanum

2021     Armistice Declaration

2032     Nick and Rory meet at Christmas party

2033     The Burning

2034     Scott kindles, Nick meets Lorcan

2035     Rafael joins the Armistice

2038     Lorcan appointed Court of Shadows ambassador to the Triumvirate Council

2039     Nick appointed Triumvirate Council ambassador to the Court of Shadows

2040     Los Angeles incident

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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to those who helped me improve my skills and made this third edition possible, with criticism and encouragement. I especially want to thank my editors,
Greg Ioannou,
Karlyn Thayer, Erin Roof, and Karin Cox for their comments, as well as my beta readers, Jerry, Eric, Karul, and Katy. Thank you also to Jason, Juniper, and Jessica for their proofreading skills. I am grateful as well to the fine folks at IWU and II for their friendship and advice. And of course, mad props to Craig Payst for his terrific illustrations.

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Arshad Ahsanuddin is a practicing hematopathologist, a physician specializing in the diagnosis of diseases of blood, bone marrow, and lymph nodes using laboratory data and microscopic evaluation of tissue biopsies. Yes, he’s a blood doctor writing a series of vampire novels. The irony isn’t lost on him. If you enjoyed this story, or if you have questions about the Pact Arcanum saga, check out his website at http://pactarcanum.com and leave him some feedback.

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Fiction

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P
ACT
A
RCANUM
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AGA

Sunset (Book One)

Sunrise (Book Two)

Moonlight (Book Three)

Starlight (Book Four)

Cathedral of the Sky

Non-Fiction

First Words: 13 Short Essays on Writing from a Neophyte Author’s Perspective

Stepwise: eBook and Print-on-Demand Formatting using Word 2010

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OPYRIGHT

First Edition: February 2011

Second Edition: December 2012

Third Edition: April 2012

Fourth Edition: October 2012

Text © 2012 by Arshad Ahsanuddin

Sentinel, Armistice Security, and Icarus artwork incorporate licensed graphic design elements © iStockphoto.com/Nathan Winter (sword), Seamartini (falcon), Sébastien Decoret (stars), Rafael Pacheco (moon). Spacer Guild artwork incorporates a public domain image (moon) created by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA.

All other interior artwork © 2010 by Arshad Ahsanuddin

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, organizations, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, government institutions, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.