The Hidden Son

A secret history of our world, witnessed by an immortal god in exile.

He has been a god to the Aztecs, a poet in Elizabeth's England, a shadow in the halls of the Vatican. But for millennia, the immortal Vincente has been hiding from a single, devastating truth: the story of his own birth.

Born from the forbidden love between a primordial earth-spirit and a powerful Mayan priestess, his very existence shattered a cosmic peace and provoked a war that erased his world from history. Cast adrift, he is Ix-Kanil, the Shadow Seed, a lonely god who walks through the rise and fall of human empires. He guides the foundation of Tenochtitlan, trying to teach balance to the fierce Aztec empire. He witnesses the brutal arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, survives the decadent, blood-soaked courts of Renaissance Italy, and navigates the deadly intrigue of Elizabethan London, all while wrestling with a thirst not for blood, but for the very energy of life itself.

Haunted by the ghosts of fallen civilizations and lost loves, Vincente is a reluctant predator, a philosophical wanderer searching for solace in a world that is not his own. But his ancient past is catching up to him. A dark prophecy is stirring, a hidden war over legendary artifacts is brewing in the shadows of the Church, and the catastrophic legacy of his father, the first of their kind to fall to a corrupting curse, threatens to resurface in the New World.

Spanning millennia and continents, from the dawn of creation to the fall of empires, The Hidden Son is a tragic, epic, and unforgettable reinvention of the vampire myth. If you love the historical depth of Anne Rice and the grand scale of epic fantasy, your new obsession begins here.