Love in Vein

When one's life is long the opportunity for sin is great. How great then, are the sins of a vampire strung to the wheel of fate?Love in Vein is a tale of crime and consequence, of love and sacrifice, intricately woven with real historic events. Set amidst gorgeous Southwestern landscapes, unveiling a dark, hidden underbelly of our society, as a seemingly innocuous journey unravels a tapestry of events that threatens to crush the very lives of all who are stitched into fate's delicate...
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When one's life is long the opportunity for sin is great. How great then, are the sins of a vampire strung to the wheel of fate?Love in Vein is a tale of crime and consequence, of love and sacrifice, intricately woven with real historic events. Set amidst gorgeous Southwestern landscapes, unveiling a dark, hidden underbelly of our society, as a seemingly innocuous journey unravels a tapestry of events that threatens to crush the very lives of all who are stitched into fate's delicate skein.Lin is a two hundred and fifty-six year old Child of Evensong. Plagued by the memories of a horrific sandstorm that raged through the Great Plains on May 9th and 10th 1934, and the brutal murders of an entire farming village at the hands the vampires she was traveling with, Lin has been locked into returning to the scene of the crime every decade looking for redemption. For nearly seventy-five years she's been traveling with the wild, violent, and unpredictable century-old vampire, Z. Together the two lost souls have wrecked havoc in their own right, killing and burning their feed sites, to cover their tracks, every decade when Lin feels the pull to return to that Northeastern corner of New Mexico.Now, as they barrel down the road to that hallowed site, pursued by two Arizona Homicide Detectives, Lin finds hope for her salvation in the form of a young medical student named Sarah Somers. Though, Sarah appears to be more than just a stranger that Lin has met along the way. She is the spitting image of one of the slain villagers from that nightmarish massacre. Her vestige is contained within a silver locket that Lin has kept around her neck for nearly seventy-five years, taken from one of the corpses as the winds from the sandstorm died. Sarah's uncanny resemblance to the murdered woman draws Lin into a deep emotional journey of karma and lies. She abandons her long time friend for the young woman, causing unsettling repercussions that pits her very soul against her dark vampiric nature when she is forced to break in upon a family of four with an injured Sarah, struggling to save her life. Now, Lin is faced with revisiting the horror that has plagued her for so many decades on the innocent family or forever loose the woman she loves.Will Lin risk her sanity to dive into her broken soul and save the girl that destiny has re-birthed for her?Will she become the monster that she has always feared?Can the wheels of fate ever be stopped from their determined course once blood has sullied the ground?Love in Vein is a pulse-pounding horror novel fueled with an adrenaline induced joyride on the wrong side of night!