People of the Blood is a sweeping historical thriller series that blends espionage, secret societies, and buried truths across the fault lines of the twentieth century. In The Hidden One, an American lawyer is drawn into a clandestine bloodline with roots in Imperial Russia, discovering a legacy bound to prophecy, violence, and hidden power. In Prisoner of Hope, that legacy collides with Cold War secrets, Soviet prisons, and a ruthless global struggle to suppress evidence of crimes buried beneath history itself. Spanning Moscow, Europe, and the shadows of intelligence agencies, the series explores identity, loyalty, and the cost of truth. Dark, immersive, and relentless, People of the Blood is a high-stakes thriller series where ancestry is destiny—and survival demands choosing sides.
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The Hidden One
In 1993, fifty-year-old Ashley Cooper seems to have everything: elite law work on post-perestroika Russia, a Fifth Avenue penthouse, fast cars, and a faster mistress. Then people begin dying—his wife among them. With his teenage daughter Annie, Ashley deciphers diaries from his true father and grandfather, revealing the WWII atrocity of the “Iron Cage” and supernatural forces shielding—and hunting—him. A hidden prince, he must endure brutal trials against the Polinkov, ancient rivals of the Iskandarov. Book one of People of the Blood.
Genre-busting giant of a debut
—Ian Graham Leask, author of House of Large Sizes -
Prisoner of Hope
In 1993, Ashley Cooper and his daughter Annie arrive in post-Soviet Moscow, continuing their quest to become ‘Of the Iskandarov’ after The Hidden One. Set in the newborn Russian Federation and ending in a wild, magical Arctic scarred by Stalinism, the second People of the Blood novel follows Ashley—alongside the love of his life—through deadly Iskandarov trials in a demonic realm as he hunts his father’s gulag diary, proof of the “Iron Cage.”
wild ride with well-developed characters… and loads of adventure
—B.C., review on Amazon
