On the other hand… maybe be didn’t mind after all. Of course, that’s when he felt an alarm, just when things started to get very interesting.
“Shit, the bonehead sheriff is back, and he brought fifty or so of his closest friends.”
She cursed and got up, and started to get dressed, “How do you know it’s him?”
He explained as he got dressed, “I recognized his life force, my range has increased a lot since I drained those twenty people. I also discovered I could drain and send life force to strengthen my zombies further at the same time, so I don’t get overloaded. They’re almost like batteries, I can pull the life force back later to make new zombies, so it makes things a little easier to coordinate.”
He could see the question in her eyes, “I’d have told you earlier, but I just couldn’t talk about that battle, I didn’t want to even think about it. I still miss her but… it only feels like having my heart ripped out now so I can deal.”
She touched his chest and kissed his cheek, “Orders master?” she said teasingly.
He snorted, “Stop that, I don’t have time right now for games.”
She smiled when she noticed his reaction, down below, and he shook his head in amusement and walked out and towards the front of the school. She followed after.
He sighed, “Fine, concentrate on protection, for both of us, the zombies and I are all the offense we need.”
She nodded seriously, teasing time apparently over as they walked outside.
“Sheriff Daniels, you don’t want to do this. Your outnumbered, and outclassed.”
He didn’t feel any life forces that indicated magical power.
Todd replied, “You are on government property.”
He rolled his eyes, “That’s just a lame excuse to help you sleep better at night. The truth is your no better than raiders, except all you do is extort food and supplies for protection, is that about right? A different kind of raider, with the foresight to look down the road. You cloak it as legitimate government and taxes, and right here you see an opportunity to take a whole farm, based on a law that doesn’t matter anymore. Go home Todd, your greed is making you overstep.”
Todd shook his head, “We’ve taken out raider groups bigger than this, most of us are trained officers and know our way around in a fight. This is your last chance, move your people out now and I’ll allow it.”
He frowned, “This is my place, not going to happen.”
Todd screamed a war cry, and him and his buddies charged.
He didn’t even bother draining more than a handful, they stood no chance against the speed and strength of his zombies, and he more than outnumbered the idiot. A few minutes later he had a hundred and forty-eight zombie minions, and learned the depressing truth.
They had been no better than a mob shaking down people for protection money, but on the other hand, they had taken out the local raiders as well. They just… pushed too hard. They shouldn’t have tried to attack his people, or taken what was his without a right to do so. The only thing that made him feel a little guilty, was that a lot of them had families, ones they would never see again.
Huh… on second thought. He sent those forty new zombies home, to guard their families, and continue to protect the area, except… they wouldn’t be taking a cut of everything, because he also put them to work on their own farm. He figured their families would figure it out eventually, but he wanted them to act normal, so it wouldn’t be that easy to detect.
Cassie asked, “What are you thinking about so hard.”
He sighed, “The old saying, if you want something done right…” he trailed off, and she finished, “Do it yourself.”
One week later
He looked into the city from the edge, right where the radiation started. He’d decided if they were ever going to truly be safe, he’d have to make it happen himself. Cassie, his army of zombies, and he had gone through the L.A. area like a wave. When he found a quiet group of people working together, pulling together to make it, he left a zombie or two behind to keep an eye on things. When he came upon a gang of raiders that had lost their humanity, and only preyed on other humans, he did what was appropriate.
There were over five hundred zombies behind him, all stuffed with plenty of extra life force, and out there in front of him, within his range, he could feel thousands of blank spots, just waiting for him to raise them. He knew there were millions farther in, but he didn’t have the range, or power, yet…
He thought that would be a good start though. His initial plan was the west coast, from where he was, right up to Seattle. A string of safe communities. He didn’t need to charge taxes, or any of that bullshit, it was simply time to take out the trash. He’d make it safe for him, for Cassie, and for all those that wanted to live in peace, no matter how many ass-hats he had to kill in the process.
He sent his power out into the city, and felt the zombies rise.
Afterword:
I hope you enjoyed the story. More is coming for Katie and the others in this world.
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Other erotic fantasies by D. R. Rosier:
Cirenthian Chronicles – Book one is Out of Darkness.
Marcus, an ancient vampire, finds himself moved to another world where suddenly he is alive again, and magic is a known and powerful danger. No longer a vampire and dealing with emotions he hasn’t felt in over a millennium, will he be able to start a new life? This series is now complete.
Necromancer Chronicles – Book one is The Necromancer.
Vincent is a necromancer and has an even darker secret. Feared by the rest of the supernatural community he lives on his own, often struggling with his powers, and how to use them. But change is coming, and he will soon find himself dragged into the middle of a suspicious and untrusting community.
Anise is a sorceress, but she has secrets of her own. She is an ancient being, who has walked the earth for time immemorial. She lives in a never ending cycle of life, forever watching those she dares to care about age and die. But she is about to find something new that will offer her hope, if she can live long enough to find it.
Cytherean Chronicles – Book one is Flame of Cytherea.
This two book series follows the chosen champion of a goddess, brought to her world and healed after he was mortally wounded on Earth. At first Justin is a little lost, not knowing anything about the world he finds himself in or even why he is there.
Ashley’s Tale – This two book series follows the tale of a woman with unique parentage in a world greatly different from our own Earth. It is twenty-five years in the future, and the supernatural have long since been exposed. Ashley must struggle with her conflicting nature to find a balance, and her hidden power, as she is taken unwillingly into an extraordinary destiny.
Ashley’s Daughters – This three book trilogy is about Ashley’s three daughters. It’s about a new world of dragons, and a second new world of human mages and all the fallout involved. Of course, it’s also about them finding love, and their place in the worlds. It starts about twenty-eight years after the end of Ashley’s tale.
Sentient – This is the standalone book following an artificial intelligence from an advanced race, a man who comes back from war a little broken, along with diverse others as the Earth itself is put into danger as they are dragged into an interstellar war against their will.
Sentient: Evolution – This is a sequel to the stand alone book Sentient. It takes place a thousand years later, when Aide finds herself alone and broken, yet still following her programming. Others join her as a new menace approaches, one that makes the Sthellan look like a great neighbor in comparison.
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br /> Will Aide be able to recover and rise to a new challenge? She’s been alive too long, she must either evolve, or wither away, if only she could bring herself to care…
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The Dragon Slayer and the… This is a series of novelettes in a unique world, each story will be different characters with HEA endings. These will be about eighty pages long and priced appropriately. The first book, The Dragon Slayer and the Princess, is now available:
Sir Lance Spears, Baron, knight dragon hunter, has been hunting dragons for ten years. It’s what he’s dedicated his life too, eradicating the dragons that destroy human villages and see humans as prey.
He’s also been alone for ten years, and tired of the women of the peerage that see nothing of him, only of his titles and money. Not to mention, they all play the courtly game and faint at his feet. That’s not what he wants. He wants a challenging intelligent woman who will help make life interesting.
He should have been more careful about what he wished for, as his life is about to become very complicated as nothing seems to make sense about his next dragon hunt. It doesn’t fit in his world view as he enters a neighboring kingdom to help slay a dragon. He’s not sure what’s going on, and he also can’t get a certain princess with fiery eyes and attitude out of his head either. He better figure it out though, or he could lose everything… including his life.
Return of Magic - This epic fantasy series partially follows Katie, a young woman raised on a farm, and not incidentally, Merlin’s descendent and successor. Her and diverse others fight as magic reemerges in our world in response to a dire threat. The government is in tatters, technology stops working, and most of the world’s population is dead. A new era for mankind has started, and they must share what remains with other races, races of magic, such as elves and dragons.
Non-erotic Fantasy titles:
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The Formerly Dark Mage, by D. L. Harrison – This standalone fantasy book follows the life of Silvia and takes place in a world unique and separate to our own.
Silvia is a dark mage. Unfortunately, she finds herself about to be sacrificed. Someone must have told her evil master about her plans to kill him and take over. After that, things just seem to go downhill. She has no choice but to escape the kingdom of Zual, something that to her knowledge has never been done before. She will need to deal with many issues she never had to face before.
Among those issues, the white mages, and her conscience.
Celia Winters Novels, by D. L. Harrison – This is an urban fantasy series. Celia is a witch who finds out she is so much more in the first book, Witch’s Moon. There are no cliffhangers, and each book will be complete in itself, though because of character development and the timeline I’d recommend reading them in order.
Just a Psychic: The Power of Air Book One, by D. L. Harrison starts off this series of a man who comes into powers he knows nothing about, and tries to both handle the present difficulties and find out about his past.
Ben has grown up with missing memories of his early childhood.
He has known he was a psychic since his earliest memories, seeing the future and gaining knowledge with his gifts.
Is it possible he isn't just a psychic?
Ben's world is about to be turned upside down as he turns twenty-one, all is not as it seems.
Alicia Jones novels, by D. L. Harrison is a series that follows a bright young inventor and scientist named Alicia Jones. It is a space opera and light science fiction.
The first book is titled First Contact:
Alicia Jones is a genius, and a little odd. At just twenty-three years of age, she is close to finishing her doctoral dissertation. But when she tests her latest theory in the lab to generate a strong EM field, it has very unanticipated results. Results that lead to faster than light travel, and first contact with another race.
Her life just gets more complicated after that, when she finds out who she really is, and that the universe may not be as nice a place as she’d been told. Her determination to help keep Earth safe takes her to places more dangerous and strange than she’d ever envisioned.
Book Description
This epic fantasy follows four individuals as magic, and the gods, are reintroduced to the world in order to save it.
Katie, a simple farm girl home for the summer before her junior year in college, lives in a helpless depression as the world dies a little more each day under alien bombardment. Then she has a strange dream, wakes up with magic, and a new purpose she doesn’t entirely understand.
Kurien, son of Queen Sianne, is given a mission to explore the state of the world and discover why the elves were returned to the primary realm, and why no one was there to greet them.
Sean, an odd man in his mid-thirties, may starve in his apartment in southern California because he is afraid to go out where there are looters, and raiders. Until he wakes up one morning to discover a talent that will change his life forever.
WARNING: This book is an erotic epic fantasy novel. If you are offended by explicit sex, do not buy this book. There are MF scenes of a sexually explicit nature.
NOTE: This novel is told in the third person from four points of view.
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