Written in the Blood

by Stephen Lloyd Jones

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Pub Date May 26 2015 | Archive Date Jun 30 2015

Mulholland Books

Mystery & Thrillers | Sci Fi & Fantasy

Description

See the girl. Leah Wilde is twenty-four, a runaway on a black motorbike, hunting for answers while changing her identity with each new Central European town.

See the man, having come of age in extraordinary suffering and tragedy in nineteenth-century Budapest: a witness to horror, to love, to death, and the wrath of a true monster. Izsv°k still lives in the present day, impossibly middle-aged. He's driven not only to hunt this immortal evil but to find his daughter, stolen from an Arctic cabin and grown into the thing Izsv°k has sworn to kill.

See the monster, a beautiful, seemingly young woman who stalks the American West, seeking the young and the strong to feed upon, desperate to return to Europe where her coven calls.

Written in the Blood is the epic thriller of the year, a blazing and dexterous saga spanning generations, and threading the lives of five individuals driven by love, by sacrifice, by hunger and by fear. They seek to save a race -- or to extinguish it forever.

See the girl. Leah Wilde is twenty-four, a runaway on a black motorbike, hunting for answers while changing her identity with each new Central European town.

See the man, having come of age in...

Advance Praise

“Essential reading for devotees of high-end sf . . . Fast-paced . . . Readers are essentially propelled through the book, carried from one character to another, bouncing around from one place in the world to another, completely caught up in the story.” —Booklist (starred)

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EDITION	Ebook
ISBN	9780316254472
PRICE	$9.99 (USD)

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Rosemary S, Librarian

Three very unusual characters intersect in this story of monsters and immortality. Leah is a 24-year-old runaway, riding through Europe on her motorcycle, changing her name at every new border. Izsak has witnessed true horror in Budapest in the 19th century, but has somehow lived to the present day. Perhaps he has lived so long because he has a mission, to find the daughter stolen from a mountain cabin and to hunt down and destroy a monster. The monster? Well, she doesn’t look like one. She looks like a beautiful young woman. A young woman who is traveling through the American west, taking what she needs. And what she needs is food – young, healthy, humans; through them she will attain the strength to travel back to Europe where she can join the rest of her kind. Yes, that’s right, there are more.

An ingenious thriller. Absolutely unique in plot and characters, like nothing else I have ever read

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Donna D, Librarian

Leah, Izsak, and the Monster. What a trio of suspense! Surprises around every corner, suspense on every page. Here's one that will keep you up reading till the wee hours....with the lights on, for sure.