
Meet private detective Seren Balthasar. Cast in the mold of Sherlock Holmes and Aloysius Pendergast, Seren is as much a detective of the past as the future. Add in a lot of yaoi spice and some alien vampires and you get Price for Passage, the first of many stories to come with this character.
Seren has been hired by the wealthy and handsome Jason Kane to find his younger brother, Chase. The naive teenager had disappeared after seeking passage to the fabled planet of Black Heart aboard a Kin vessel known as The Stryke. In order to save Chase, Seren must discover the dark underbelly of Kin and human society where everything is for sale in exchange for blood and sex. Will Seren be in time to stop Chase frm paying the ultimate price?
*This story is set in the same universe as the yaoi novel, The Abyss.
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Seren is a private detective cast in the mold of Sherlock Holmes and Aloysius Pendergast, but instead of the past or present, Seren lives on a future Earth where humans share the planet with an alien vampiric species known as the Kin. He is called in when no one else can help. His history is shrouded in darkness with some even doubting his humanity. But one thing is known: when he takes on a case, it gets solved. His life, however, has been a lonely one until he rescues Chase Kane from vicious Kin Lord Baran Xaresetes.
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Chase is always in search of adventure. He chaffed under his older brother's benevolent restrictions until one day he decided to break free of them. The mysterious Kin homeworld called Black Heart has been rediscovered and Chase is intent upon going there even though it is not yet open to human exploration. Determined, he books passage onboard a Kin spaceship, only the price ends up being more than he can bear to pay.
Jason is Chase's protective older brother. He runs a multiworld corporation that sells Kin tech to the human populace. He believed that the Kane position and money would buy them safety against the dangers of Kin vampiric appetites. He was wrong.
Baran is a Kin Lord who has fallen out of favor. He is also a member of the malignant Order of Shoath, a Kin Order that believes humans should be enslaved so that they may be fucked and fed upon without any pesky things like rules and rights. Chase has the misfortune of coming to him for passage to Black Heart. Baran decides to put his beliefs in practice on the young attractive human male.
The Kin Universe is a series of stories set far in the future where an alien species known as the Kin came to earth. Their massive spaceships filled Earth's skies like worldwide thunderclouds. Their flagship, The Abyss, alone had caused a shadow to fall over the entirety of the San Angeles Megalopolis.
If the Kin had come for a fight, with their vastly superior technology and physiology, humanity's days might very well have been numbered. But no shots were ever fired. Instead, the Kin made humans an offer. They would share their advanced technology with the Earthian High Command in exchange for one simple thing:
Human blood.
It was clear that the Kin could simply take what they wanted so the decision to agree to the bargain was easily made. Fifty years later, however, humanity has begun to wonder if accepting this bargain was far worse than a quick annihilation would have been. The Kin have a darker name now. It is whispered on human lips with a quick glance over their shoulders: Vampires.
But humanity is not completely without hope. There are some who can penetrate the dark world of blood, sex and power that are at the center of Kin society and come out unscathed. They may even be able to bring others out with them.








