KAI - A Japanese, Korean inspired fiction horror novel, by author Derek Vasconi

Universes collide, as KAI brings together Japanese and American cultures in a melting pot of madness. It is the bastard child of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 and Stephen King’s CARRIE, a story about how one innocent girl becomes the target of the enormous rage living inside another girl—who is seemingly from another world.

Hands. Arms. Flesh puzzles. It’s still a mystery to Seul Bi. She doesn’t understand why her adoptive parents had to die that morning ten years ago in Hawaii. It was supposed to be the perfect getaway from the December chill in Evanston. Some vacation that turned out to be. Their bodies were never recovered (except for a few severed limbs), and now Seul Bi can’t sleep and can’t understand how she became twice an orphan.

Satsuki is invisible. That’s what she gets for moving to Hiroshima from Tokyo in the middle of a school year. It doesn’t help that she’s just an average-looking otaku teen, either. The only thing she has going for her is the upcoming birth of her sister. No longer will she be alone in the world.

Unfortunately for Seul Bi and Satsuki, their lives are about to get a whole lot worse.

Seul Bi is nearly smothered in ash during a freak storm—or was it really a hallucination? Later on, she is attacked by a monstrous human whose flesh is charred to a greasy crisp. Meanwhile, Satsuki’s dreams are crushed, and she vows to never come out of her bedroom again. Her mind unravels, and with it comes destruction and death. As both girls struggle to understand what is happening to them, their enigmatic connection comes into focus, raising the question: What if all the suffering in your life was carefully choreographed by somebody you’ve never met?   

Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award for Best Horror Book of 2016
Winner of the Indie Reader Discovery Award for Best Horror Book of 2016
WINNER OF THE 2016 JACK EADON AWARD FOR BEST BOOK IN A CONTEMPORARY DRAMA!
ONE OF THE TOP 100 NOTABLE BOOKS IN THE 2016 SHELF UNBOUND BEST INDIE BOOK COMPETITION
Finalist for the 2016 Eric Hoffer Award
Finalist for the 2016 Kindle Book Review Award
FINALIST FOR THE 2106 FOREWORD INDIES BEST HORROR BOOK