LIFE BLOOD: V.M. Black

MARCH 29TH GIVEAWAY

If you've been waiting for a juicy vampire novel to sink your teeth into, today's your day! LIFE BLOOD by V.M. Black is a fantastic blending of fantasy, paranormal romance, thrills and good old-fashioned blood sucking!  

Today everyone is a winner! Just go to the link provided and download for free! How's that for convenient? 

The author has also supplied us with a blog that explains something about her and her writing! Good stuff! 

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I've always liked fantasy--high fantasy, low fantasy, alternative history, urban fantasy, all of it.  And I've always liked romantic elements in my books, from full-on romances to romantic subplots.  I'd been kicking around a few ideas about vampires for a few years.  I liked the scariness of old fashioned vampires, and I like the sexy-and-not-always-deadly vampire that's more common today, but there seemed to be a hole in vampire literature where the scary-but-redeemed vampire lives.  If a vampire can kill people but doesn't really need to, he isn't really much darker than a human with homicidal urges.  I imagined a situation in which a vampire would have to kill to live, at least much of the time, and the rest of the story spiraled out from there.

In this case, what would an ethical vampire be seeking?  What would his goals be, and how would he go about them?  And what would an ordinary human think, taken along for the ride?

I also decided to make the vampire's magic...non-magical.  By knocking the fantastical upside the head with a science stick, it allowed a world in which there could be change in a way in which "regular" magic doesn't allow.  A world that is rocked by disruptive technological revolution is a great background for characters to act against, and it allows you to repeatedly return everything on its head.

Aethereal Bonds was the world that resulted from these thoughts--with not just vampires but weres, demons, and faes, too.  It's both familiar and new.

I'm giving away five copies of the first book, Life Blood.  The second novella of the series, Blood Born, will be out April 15.

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She wanted life.
He needed her blood.

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Cora Shaw will do anything to live. Diagnosed with terminal cancer in her senior year of college, she is given a choice: Call hospice, or seek out a mysterious man who promises an impossible--and insanely dangerous--cure.

She knows him only as Mr. Thorne, a reclusive billionaire whose very touch fills her mind and body with reckless cravings. A man with strange, impossible powers over her, who can turn even the darkest pain into intense pleasure.

A man, she discovers, who is not a man at all.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

V. M. Black is the author of the Aethereal Bonds series of new adult vampire romantic paranormal urban fantasy, taking vamps, weres, faes, and demons where they've never gone before.