Life Blood
By H.K. Savage
Genre- YA/Paranormal Romantic Suspense
What if we knew how to live forever? Is any cost too great?
Ava Brandt has been plagued with indecision her entire life; her direction influenced by the people around her, not her heart. When a chance encounter with a stranger challenges everything she thought she remembered from her frightening past, she must confront hidden memories to survive.
Ben Pearson, descendant of a famous physician, is living proof of his ancestor's miraculous discovery two hundred years ago. Through a combination of blood transfusions from unsuspecting donors, he uncovered his own fountain of youth. As an unwilling convert, Ben continues to fight for those who are dying; their murderers content to kill innocents to prolong their own lives, no matter the human cost.
Finally accepting the truth of her past and the dreams that have plagued her, Ava comes face to face with her fears. But just as she comes to terms with this new reality and new feelings for her ageless rescuer, she finds herself in the middle of a battle that has raged and claimed untold young lives for centuries.
Excerpt:
Ben was heatedly discussing the chemical makeup of whatever was in the
syringe. Ava, who didn’t understand most of it, was tired. She hadn’t slept all
night and was having trouble keeping her eyes open.
She heard Ben growling out more orders. “Get every one of them in for
a full evaluation in the next twenty-four hours. Destroy every vial that woman
touched.” He snapped his phone shut.
“What’s going on Ben?” she mumbled sleepily.
He was working hard not to explode. “That woman,” he spat the word,
“put trace amounts of neurotoxins in our samples after they were cleared for
test subjects. Do you know the kind of pain they’ve gone through just so she
could sabotage our research? She had another dose of the toxin in that syringe
meant for you.”
That kind of cruelty was something Ava couldn’t comprehend. It was
such a waste of what had been a great mind. Now she was dead because of her
vanity and greed.
Ava drifted off, dreaming of needles and bodies on fire.
HK lives in the frozen hinterlands of the far North. The long, cold months provide ample opportunity to hunker down with her computer and create adventures far more enticing than scraping ice and getting frostbite.
Between books HK reads voraciously. Anything with a good plot and compelling characters are her broad parameters. One is as likely to catch her with a copy of Don Quixote as with the latest Kristen Ashley.
When not writing or wowing the corporate world by day, HK practices martial arts, plays with her dogs and matches wits with her teen. Next winter she intends to brush up on her Spanish and escape the cold for somewhere more tropical.
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