DEREK: THE
BLACKSMITH
DEREK
Some monsters are born. Others are made.
England, 1384.
Derek Smith is a blacksmith, a husband, and a father. His life is simple. His hands are calloused from the forge, his family is everything to him, and immortality is the furthest thing from his mind.
Then, on an ordinary delivery, Derek encounters something that should not exist.
The attack lasts only moments.
The consequences will last forever.
For two days, Derek lies sick and dying. On the second night, he awakens changed—consumed by a hunger he does not understand and unable to control the creature he has become. Before he can comprehend what is happening to him, the people he loves most pay the price.
His human life ends that night.
But Derek does not.
What follows is not the story of a man searching for a cure.
It is the story of a man learning to survive eternity.
Across more than six centuries, Derek moves through a world that continually changes while he remains the same. Kingdoms rise and fall. Cities burn. Wars redraw borders. Generations are born, grow old, and disappear.
Derek endures them all.
And wherever he goes, stories follow.
Some call him Smitty.
Others know him as the Blacksmith of London.
Still others whisper another name earned during one of humanity's darkest periods:
The Butcher of Berlin.
Derek has spent centuries becoming stronger, smarter, and far more dangerous than the frightened newborn vampire who once awakened in fourteenth-century England. He has learned how to hunt. How to disappear. How to move among humans without becoming one of them.
He has also learned one lesson better than any other:
Never allow anyone close enough to take something from him again.
Love belonged to the man Derek Smith used to be.
The creature that remained after 1384 made himself a different promise.
Never again.
But immortality has enemies of its own.
Behind the world humanity knows exists another hidden society—vampires governed by ancient rules, hunters who have spent generations studying and destroying them, werewolves with their own loyalties and traditions, and powers old enough to remember when Derek was still mortal.
Some fear him.
Some want him controlled.
Some want him dead.
And some know far more about the night Derek became a vampire than Derek himself.
As old enemies move against him and centuries-old secrets begin surfacing, Derek finds himself drawn into a conflict much larger than simple survival. The past he thought he had buried is coming back, and the vampire world is discovering something it should have understood long ago:
Derek Smith does not kneel easily.
At his side stands Luther Hale, a massive werewolf biker and one of the very few beings Derek genuinely trusts. Their unlikely friendship was forged in blood decades earlier, and together they represent a combination neither vampires nor hunters can comfortably ignore.
But even Luther cannot protect Derek from what is coming.
Because somewhere in the shadows is an enemy connected to the very beginning of Derek's immortal existence.
An enemy older than almost everything Derek knows.
And when centuries of secrets finally collide, Derek will have to decide what matters more—preserving the world that has hunted creatures like him for generations...
...or becoming powerful enough that no one can ever threaten him again.
DEREK is a dark supernatural epic spanning centuries of history, combining vampire horror, brutal action, dark humor, revenge, friendship, loss, and the story of one immortal man's transformation from ordinary blacksmith into one of the most feared vampires alive.
Derek isn't trying to become human again.
He isn't waiting for redemption.
And he has no intention of apologizing for surviving.
The blacksmith died in 1384.
The legend didn't.
Get Derek’s story in print – Link will be live Oct 31st
THE DEREK TRILOGY
For more than six centuries, Derek Smith has survived by one rule: never let the world get close enough to take anything from him again.
Born a blacksmith in medieval England and turned into a vampire in 1384, Derek has lived through wars, empires, fires, revolutions, and generations of hunters who learned his name the hard way. In the modern world, he is older, stronger, wealthier, and far more dangerous than most people could ever imagine.
But Derek has never wanted to rule humanity.
He wants something simpler—and much harder to achieve.
Freedom.
The Derek Trilogy follows Derek as the hidden supernatural world begins to fracture around him. Ancient vampires maneuver for control. Hunters refuse to disappear. Werewolf clans protect their own. Old enemies return. New threats rise. And the secrecy that has protected vampires and werewolves for centuries begins to fail.
At Derek’s side is Luther Hale, President and Alpha of the Bloody Dawgs, a werewolf motorcycle club built on bloodlines, loyalty, and brotherhood. Their friendship has survived decades of violence, supernatural politics, and more than a few enemies who underestimated both of them.
Across the trilogy, Derek is forced to confront the vampire world that created him, the human world that is beginning to discover him, and the question that eventually becomes impossible to avoid:
What place should monsters have in a world that finally knows they exist?
Derek’s answer is not conquest.
He does not want humans beneath him.
He does not want vampires above the law.
He wants vampires, werewolves, hunters, and humans to find a way to exist under the same rules—and anyone who threatens that future will eventually have to deal with him.
Dark, violent, character-driven, and built across centuries of history, The Derek Trilogy is the story of an immortal blacksmith who has spent hundreds of years becoming something the supernatural world can no longer ignore.
He has been called Smitty.
The Blacksmith of London.
The Butcher of Berlin.
But the name everyone remembers is simply:
Derek.
E–book available Oct 31st
