Flesh and Blood

In this paranormal tale, the stage is set for an atmospheric world of chilling dark fantasy. A veteran New York City journalist, Claire Hagen has learned not to trust everything she hears. So when her younger sister lands in a mental hospital after claiming a vampire is feeding off her blood, Claire is naturally skeptical. A search of her sister’s apartment convinces her: The delusions are a side effect of the drugs she discovers her sister had been taking.

But a deeper investigation uncovers more than Claire bargained for. Why was a man who claimed to know her sister from an online vampire forum shot dead moments after Claire interviewed him? Why are her sister’s symptoms getting worse in the hospital? And why have agents from the Vatican taken a sudden interest in Claire?

Consumed by doubt and growing paranoia, Claire barely has time to ponder her next move before a violent confrontation in her apartment changes everything. She quickly finds herself on the run with a mysterious stranger who says he wants to protect her but may not be quite what he seems. Can she trust him?

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Daniel Dersch is the pen name the author uses to ensure that readers don’t knock on his door in the middle of the night to ask him about vampires. Born in Munich, he’s the author of three #1 bestselling German-language Kindle horror titles. In his other life, Daniel is working on a PhD and collects mechanical watches.

Gerald Chapple is an award-winning translator of German literature. He received his doctorate from Harvard and went on to teach German and comparative literature at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has been translating contemporary German-language authors for over thirty-five years. His recent works in prose include two thrillers for AmazonCrossing, The Zurich Conspiracy by Bernadette Calonego and The Russian Donation by Christoph Spielberg; two works by the Austrian writer Barbara Frischmuth, The Convent School and Chasing After the Wind, both completed with his cotranslator James B. Lawson; Michael Mitterauer’s probing history of Europe from 600 to 1600, Why Europe? Medieval Origins of Its Special Path; and Anita Albus’s wonderfully idiosyncratic book, On Rare Birds. His poetry translations have focused on Günter Kunert for almost twenty years. He lives in Dundas, Ontario, with his wife, Nina, an architectural historian, and a black Labrador. He can often be found studying birds, butterflies, and dragonflies, or listening to classical music.