Blood Kisses Blood Tears

Some say that legends are born. Others say they are made. What if they are both right? No one is born with a choice, but everyone is born with fear, and most live their lives adapting to both. Charlie is one such person, trudging through each day until she was reborn, again without a choice, but in a life filled with fear. Being 'abnormally normal', she was suddenly thrown into a world she didn't believe existed. A world specially created, through time, just for her arrival with her unique blood. A heart that knew nothing but pain is filled by a mysterious man who existed for over a thousand years to be with her again. Surviving as a human was hard enough, but trying to fit into a world where her very existence could mean the downfall of her new race is much harder than she ever had to deal with. Can she find her courage to not only keep herself alive, but those of her new family as well? Follow along with Charlie as she tells the story of how she became the person she was meant to be. This is her story. This is her legend.

Some say legends are born. Others say they are made. What if they are both right? No one is born with a choice, but everyone is born with fear, and most live their lives adapting to both.Charlie is one such person, trudging through each day until she was reborn, again without a choice, but into a life filled with fear.Being 'abnormally normal', she was suddenly thrown into a world she didn't believe existed; a world specially created, through time, just for her arrival with her unique blood.A heart that knew nothing but pain is challenged by a mysterious man who existed for over a thousand years to be with her again.Surviving as a mortal was hard enough, but trying to fit into a world where her very existence could mean the downfall of her new race is much harder than she ever had to deal with. Can she find her courage to not only keep herself alive but her new family as well?In the first installment of her story, follow along as she retells how she became the person she was born to be.This is her story. This is her legend.

Charlie is a 44 year old woman who can't seem to get herself out of the same boring day-to-day rut she has put herself into, until a group of strangers come into her life from her long ago past to not only change her perspective on herself and all mankind, but to also change her into something even she didn't believe could exist.Unbeknownst to Charlie, when she opened her door to her best and only friend Sue, that it would be one of the last days she would know as a human. Two days later, she goes to a party and meets the man of Sue's dreams but who turns out to be the man of Charlie's nightmares. When Charlie wakes up to find strangers in her home who inform her of what she has become, she barely holds onto her sanity. She learns that a vast and intriguing group of people from history, dating back to Adam and directly linked to her and her bloodline, had been given the gift of immortality for one purpose only. To protect her and her rare unique blood.She also learns that not only is she the first triling to have ever been created, thanks to her new friends, it is legend that she will be the one to save mankind after learning how her third blood type will let her change into an animal form. Along the way she makes friends with others from her past who have traveled many lifetimes just for the day she would be 'born'. But there is also a horde of enemies who want nothing more than to stop her, preferably by death. Her only gift after being turned seems to be immortality as she remains completely human. Will this be enough to stop them?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Vampire Chronicles continue as the great vampire Marius returns. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti- mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence. Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, kidnapped and made a “blood god” by the Druids, Marius becomes the embittered protector of Akasha and Enkil, Queen and King of the vampires, in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. We follow him through his heartbreaking abandonment of the vampire Pandora. Through him we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine and the horrific sack of the Eternal City itself at the hands of the Visigoths. Bravely, Marius seeks a new civilization in the midst of glittering Constantinople, only to meet with the blood drinker Eudoxia. We see him ultimately returning to his beloved Italy, where after the horrors of the Black Death, he is restored by the beauty of the Renaissance. We see him become a painter living dangerously yet happily among mortals, giving his heart to the great Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand. Moving from Rome to Florence, Venice, and Dresden, and to the English castle of the secret scholarly order of the Talamasca, the novel reaches its dramatic finale in our own time, deep in the jungle where Marius, having told his life story, seeks some measure of justice from the oldest vampires in the world.

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