BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 6, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Evil has no limits, no boundaries. The imagination, similarly, is as vast as the person wielding it. In the new novel, Keep the Secret Alive (now available through 1stBooks), by Kansas Rae, evil runs rampant across an imaginative land.
Rae centers her story on Ulysses, an ex-Viking who has lived a life of atrocities. He has murdered his father and a plethora of others, abandoned the woman who gave birth to a child he has never seen. Lost, he is mortally wounded by a giant scorpion named Apollo. He gives Ulysses the choice, die or be made a scorpion. With such choices, he chooses to become a scorpion and is whisked to the Hades under Greece.
There, Ulysses learns the extent of the scorpions' evil. Apollo introduces him to his family, his father, Zeus, brother, Adonis and sister, Athena. Through his training, he learns of how far the scorpions' evil goes and the extent of their pride for it. Apollo informs him that as a scorpion, he must feel no mercy and be willing to kill man, woman or child. As Ulysses becomes more comfortable with the family and his own evilness, he also finds himself falling in love with Athena.
A new form of evil, Rae hopes to breath new life into the horror genre. Her style for the book is a myriad of poetry and imagery.
"It's poetry meets Stephen King. If music and the artist could describe this book, I would say classical music surrounded by Ozzy Osbourne songs deluded with a touch of Marilyn Manson images," Rae says.
Rae was born and raised in the south and currently calls Birmingham, Ala., her home. She is a writer and poet who writes on a variety of subjects. Keep the Secret Alive is her first book.
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