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I will be stopping reviews temporarily. My husband passed away February 1st and my new normal is a bit scary right now and I am unable to concentrate on a book to do justice to the book and authors.
I will still do spotlight posts if you wish it is just the reviews at this time. I apologize for this, but it isn't fair to you if I signed up to do a review and haven't been able to because I can't concentrate on any books.
Thank you for your understanding during this difficult time. I appreciate all of you.
Kathleen Kelly
April 2nd 2024
**30th Anniversary Edition** Blood Secrets (A Vampire Legacy Novel #1) by Karen E. Taylor Book Tour! @SilverDaggerBookTours #BloodSecrets @karenetaylorwriter
Deirdre Griffin thought she was the
only vampire left alive. She was so wrong...
**30th
Anniversary Edition**
Blood Secrets
A
Vampire Legacy Novel #1
by
Karen E. Taylor
Genre:
Paranormal Romance, Horror
The only vampire left alive?
Deirdre
Griffin spent over a century searching for others of her kind. Now
after the last ten years in New York City, she’s almost given up
hope. Until people she’s fed on start to turn up dead, drained of
all their blood. The murder scenes are cleverly staged to implicate
Deirdre and her once uncomplicated life soon becomes difficult. Who
is doing the killing?
And what should she do about detective Mitch
Greer, who keeps chipping away at the secrets that protect her life?
Feed on him? Kill him? Or the most dangerous choice of all -- fall in
love?
For the first time in her unnatural life, Deirdre finds
herself trapped between love and hate, betrayal and revenge. She must
prove her innocence and find the real murderer or pay the ultimate
price: her death.
Author's Note:
This book is a reissue of
the original novel BLOOD SECRETS. It is not a new novel.
The sun was setting and the autumn air growing chilly, but I did not feel the cold. I stared into the approaching night as if answers could be found there, in the darkness. Suddenly, I sensed the stealthy
approach of something nearing my house.
I tensed and listened, relaxing when I picked up the soft
padding of paws and the quiet breathy pants. The creature slowly came into view. It was a dog, a
stray by the looks of the ribs showing through its fur. I could still smell the odor of the roast in the air;
it was this that had brought him so near. “You have it, dog,” I said quietly. “It does me no good.” He
sidled past me and fell to devouring the meat savagely.
When he had finished, he looked at me questioningly, with a half wag of his tail. “No, boy, there’s no
more. Come here.” Surprisingly, he came right to me, and with one sniff of my opened hand, he
settled in on the porch with me.
He rested his scruffy chin on my knee and I scratched his pointed ears. “It’s a strange world, dog,” I
confided to him, “where a mongrel like you can eat a fine meal, while I have to go hungry.”
He gazed at me with trusting eyes and his tail thumped with a hollow sound on the wooden porch
planks. I began to cry, silent tears streaming coldly down my cheeks in the night air. He hunched over
close to me, offering what comfort he could and I buried my face in his soft fur. Instinctively, without
thought, I pushed aside his thick hair with my tongue and sank my teeth into his neck. He snarled
softly, whined, then relaxed as I was rewarded with the thick, salty flow. I took no more than two or
three swallows, when, in horror at what I had done, I jumped away from him. He stared up at me,
with adoring eyes and weakly wagged his tail again.
“My God,” I whispered to the quiet night. “What have I become?”
Karen
E. Taylor was born and raised in the Pittsburgh area. Despite being a
voracious reader her entire life, she’d never intended to be a
writer; instead, over the years, she received training in art,
sculpture, dance, voice, speech, needlework, sewing and fashion
design, as well as lessons in charm and horseback riding. She enjoyed
them all.
In college, as an English Literature and Communications
Arts major, she also discovered her love of theater, but none of that
long list of creative endeavors ever really stuck.
While
working as an Episcopal Church secretary in January, 1988, Karen
began writing her first novel (the one which eventually evolved into
Blood Secrets), just to prove to herself that she could. (English Lit
majors are like that.)
The book was never intended to be the first of
an ongoing series, but friends and neighbors who had read the
original manuscript demanded a sequel. From that point in time, an
author and a series was born.
From
that humble beginning, the Vampire Legacy series grew into seven full
novels; two novellas and an eighth novel (The Vampires’ Daughter)
are in the planning stages. Karen was a two time finalist for the
Bram Stoker Award, and has produced numerous short stories, a
stand-alone ghost novel (Cellar,) and two cook books.
In her spare
time, she can be found streaming retro video games on Twitch under
the screen name OldVampireLady. After bouncing around the country for
the last 40 years, she’s ended up (for now) in Vancouver, WA where
she appreciates the gloom of the great Pacific Northwest.
You
can find more information about Karen’s books at her website
at karenetaylor.com or
on Amazon.
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