Tori Minard

Blood Moon Tori Minard

Publisher Marketing: A blood sacrifice. An ancient crime of passion. A love so powerful it transcends the barrier between life and death. The moment Eve Jeremy spies the stunning Victorian mansion built by secretive nineteenth century occultist Gerald Van Orton, she's determined to buy it. But soon after she moves in, strange events begin to occur. A constant sense of being watched, mysterious footsteps on her stairs, fleeting glimpses of a handsome man in Victorian clothing-it seems her dream house comes equipped with a ghost. One hundred and sixty years ago, Michael Benedict was buried alive under the mansion in an evil ritual, his body magically preserved as a source of necromantic power. Now he knows himself only as House, the spirit of a building, and can't remember a time when he was human. Yet he longs for human voices and a human touch. When Eve arrives, he knows he'll fight, kill, even suffer final dissolution in order to protect her. With a malevolent earth spirit trying to devour her and two mysterious men bent on robbery and kidnapping, Michael has plenty of protecting to do. But the discovery of Van Orton's magical diary reveals that he and Eve have only a brief time before Michael's spirit disappears permanently. Is their love strong enough to defeat death and bring Michael back to the realm of the living? Contributor Bio:  Minard, Tori Tori Minard wrote her first story in pencil, sans paragraph breaks and quotation marks, for a third-grade class assignment. It was the dark and moving tale of a Halloween pumpkin. Unfortunately, the details of this gem have been lost to time. Her next story featured a large black dog who was really a demon in disguise. Apparently, Tori was born in paranormal mode. Three years later, it dawned on her that she didn't have to wait for the teacher's permission to write fiction. She spent the entirety of her peculiar adolescence writing weird and romantic stories which embarrassed her parents and got her in trouble at school. Unfortunately for her ego, the teachers merely thought she was writing letters to friends. Letters to friends! C'mon, this is dark, creative proto-Goth girl. Why would she write letters to friends when she could bring forth post-apocalyptic romances instead? After a long detour for such grown-up pursuits as working boring full-time jobs (State of Alaska, U. S. Postal Service), getting married and having a child, she returned to her first love-storytelling. She was born and raised in Alaska, and now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, son, and micro-dog. Her novels include The Amaki series, about sexy fae, and a vampire series that includes both pre- and post-apocalyptic romance.