VBT: Stairway to Heaven

GENRE: Fantasy 

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BLURB:

Corporal Jack Graven should be dead. Murdered by a vengeful angel at his own father's

funeral, Jack is resurrected and returns to life carrying a terrible secret: he is the Archangel

Gabriel reincarnated.

Jack's not the only one with secrets. His older brother, Lieutenant Colonel Tyler Graven "Demon

of Kyoto", has just inherited his father's fortune and legacy as Lord of War, with no intention of

stopping there: Tyler will someday rule the world.

The brothers reunite their elite military unit, “The Four Horsemen,” with Tyler’s longtime flame

Colonel Diana Levitas and the mysterious Lance Corporal Jin Xialong. Together they seek to

uncover the truth of Jack’s past life and propel Tyler to his impossible destiny.

Thrust into a supernatural war, the Gravens find salvation through the Black Muramasa, a

cursed black katana and the only weapon that can destroy immortals. As they uncover more

mysteries behind the ancient blade, they come face to face with the Devil himself, but in the

most familiar of faces. Their pasts, presents, and futures all linked, the Four Horsemen must

end the war once and for all to survive with their souls intact. Failing could mean the end of the

world.

A follow up to the explosive first book in the Ballad of Fallen Angels series, “Sympathy for the

Devil,” Book 2 is an action-packed, gun-slinging adventure that packs the punch of a military

thriller with high-stakes supernatural intrigue. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

Excerpt:

Before the man could blink, I pulled the twin Berettas from their holsters, my fingers hammering

the triggers. Time for a bloodbath.

I had died once, and it wasn’t pleasant. An angel had swooped from the sky and smashed

through my chest as if it were thin wallpaper at my father’s funeral. Since then, I realized,

amongst other things, that I could move with godlike speed as necessary, which saved me from

anguish on most occasions. The drug dealer's trigger squeeze stretched longer than the instant

it took me to draw and fire, as I rolled to the right while dodging the threat of the man’s final

shots. I fired several more times before he could accomplish the same feat.

He was the first to die.

I could feel the rounds closing in on me furiously, like an angry storm of tiny projectiles absent of

remorse. I leapt forward into a dive and rolled to dodge several of them, sprinting to cover

behind a cluster of barrels in the room’s corner. I would regenerate if anything pierced my

armor, but after taking quite a few rounds over the years I realized pain was never enjoyable. A

roomful of men would soon learn a powerful lesson: everyone is a hero until it’s time to reload.

Unfortunately for the amateurs before me, they had begun firing simultaneously, and thus would

be incapacitated in tandem while reloading.

A few seconds could stretch into a lifetime.

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Author Bio:

Alex Stevens is a Marine Corps Veteran with two deployments and a graduate of the University

of Nevada, Las Vegas Interdisciplinary Studies program, a unique undergraduate degree that

caters to students with various interests of study. He is also an advent traveler and philosophy

enthusiast who has spent a lifetime studying religions, with a focus on Non-denominational

Christianity. Alex spends most of his time going for walks, spending time with loved ones, and

when the juices are flowing, writing. Fantasy fiction is his great escape from the mundane and

he likes to create fantastical realities that are blended with non-fictional people, places, and

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