Blood of the City
by Adrik Kemp

After a century apart, Mack and Jason rediscover their love and lust, but will trying to fit into a modern world keep them together or tear them apart?

When vampire lovers Mack and Jason are reunited after decades apart, they think of nothing but each other’s company. But over time, Mack’s old-world views conflict with Jason’s liberated life, and it throws them into a spiral of confused despair. When Mack seeks solace in the arms of another and Jason’s ex-lover Greg is murdered, their relationship breaks down and Mack flees.

While in solitude, Mack is handed the surprise opportunity to rekindle a relationship with his returned, now-vampire father, Allen. They return to Sydney to introduce him to Jason, but Jason has already sought revenge on Mack’s lover and committed an atrocity of his own. Fractured so soon after their reunion, the three of them travel back to where it all began, in the country town of Wattlebrook.

Publisher’s Note: This book is a stand alone title but is best read as a sequal to Blood of the Land.

5 out of 5 fairies

This was hot, steamy, taboo, and captivating. It definitely gets your heart racing! Allen and Mack are reunited after decades apart, but it isn’t a completely happy reunion, as complications involving Jason pop up. Jason doesn’t seem to have grown too much, but given how long he was under the control of one vampire master then another, that isn’t surprising, and felt true to what I would have expected. This was a short read, but it was so easy to get lost in the pages that it was kind of a shock when I returned to the real world after the last page. I would recommend reading the first book before diving into this one, but I have to say I thought this story took it up a notch.

Til next time,
Lily

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Adrik Kemp is an accomplished author, lyricist and screenwriter. He has a BA Communications in Screenwriting and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney. His screenplays have been shortlisted for Project Greenlight Australia and pitched to markets in Australia and the United States (with Apocryphal Pictures).

Adrik’s short stories have been published all over the world, in places such as Aurealis Magazine, OUTStanding & Transmundane Press. He has two erotic vampire novellas with Pride Publishing, but don’t hold that against him.

Adrik is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community with a vested interest in his community culture. He also works as a copywriter and editor with Sydney’s Queer Screen, hosts of the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival and the Queer Screen Film Festival. He is proud to be an active part of the community. He also writes genre short stories, usually with an LGBTIQ+ perspective. He identifies as gay but doesn’t mind being called queer, and happily lives in Sydney with his husband, Carl De Villa.

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