Every Legacy Begins in Blood.

Montana Territory, 1850.
John Stone carves Stone Ranch out of the wilderness with his wife, Sarah, and their young son, Elliot, at his side. The land is brutal — storms that tear their camp apart, wolves bold enough to challenge them in the night, winters that nearly starve them. But the Stones refuse to break. They build, they bleed, and they endure.

Yet there is something ancient in the valley.
Something watching.

As Elliot grows, the land marks him in ways no one can explain. He survives wounds that should have killed him. He senses danger before it appears. And when a wandering vampire makes a deadly choice that changes the boy’s fate forever, Stone Ranch becomes the birthplace of a supernatural legacy.

What begins as a frontier survival saga becomes the origin story of a man who will one day walk between worlds — human and immortal, rancher and predator — shaped by the harsh land that once tried to claim him.

Dark Territory is the sweeping chronicle of the first Stone family, the making of a ranch that will outlast its founders, and the moment a single boy’s bloodline is rewritten by immortality.

For readers who love:
• frontier grit with a supernatural twist
• slow-burn transformation arcs
• vampires rooted in realism and history
• generational legacy and family loyalty
• atmospheric, beautifully harsh landscapes
• stories where destiny begins quietly… then strikes like lightning

This is where the legend begins.
Where hardship forges a boy into something more.
Where Stone Ranch becomes immortal.