Tears of Blood

Tears of Blood (Book 3 of The Blood Chronicles) is a paranormal romance novel re-introducing Amado Gianni (known as Armand Gerino in the Hollywood Days of the 1920s).  His death, before the grand event of talking movies, sent millions of fans into mourning and catapulted him into more than one realm of eternal life.

Meghan Stanley is a woman of our era.   Divorced, struggling to make ends meet in the crime ridden town of Bentham, New Jersey, she’s unprepared for the savior that appears the night she was attacked.

She’s unprepared in more than one way–Meghan is blind.

How did the unusual storyline come to me?

I’ve always been a big fan of movies from the 1920s, where the actors had to ply their field far more carefully than they do in today’s society.  Acting involved the body, the face, and the hands.  Watch any silent Chaplin film—can you ‘see’ what he’s conveying without words?  Doesn’t your eyes fill with tears when he looks at the screen, sadness apparent in those large eyes, a tremble echoing in the line of his chin?  I’ve hundreds of favorite actors from that era–the Gish sisters, Chaplin, any of the Keystone Cops, the notorious Fatty Arbuckle, Navarro,  Lon Chaney, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickfair, and the sultry eyed Rudolph Valentino.

We’ve all read about the power of a vampire.

Once they stare into your eyes—you’re lost.

What if you’re blind?

To me, that’s as intriguing as a vampire with amnesia.  **grin**.  Joining my two main characters is a cast of old familiars, as well as some new people that stir the so-called supernatural pot of Bentham.  A few of these new individuals will soon appear in a new series entitled The Witching Scrolls, so stay tuned!

Blurb:

In the heyday of young Hollywood, one man wore the title of the darling bad boy of the Silver Screen. Embracing the label, Amado Gianni swept the cinema with his dark looks and sultry charm, and women fell at his feet in adoration.
A chance meeting with a dark soul, took everything from him. Left a shadow in the modern world, his existence was in constant combat with the forces of good and evil.
Meghan Stanley was a lost soul, battling the inescapable odds mounting against her. Blind, with a human seeking to destroy her, she was unaware of her appeal to the undead.
Fate would join them in a battle of survival…one filled with tears of blood.

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