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Matters of the Blood
 
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If you thought your family was strange...

Try being Keira Kelly. A member of a powerful paranormal family, Keira elected to stay among humans in the Texas Hill Country when the rest of the clan moved (lock, stock, and grimoire) to Canada. But family duty means still having to keep an eye on cousin Marty -- a genetic aberration who turned out 100% human, poor guy. And recently Keira's been having violent dreams -- or are they visions? -- featuring Marty as the victim of a vicious murder. Something sinister seems to be brewing in little Rio Seco. Can Keira get to the bottom of it all while avoiding entanglement with her former lover, Sheriff Carlton Larson? And what does she plan to do about the irresistible and enigmatic Adam Walker? When this old friend shows up as the new owner of a local ranc and wants to get better acquainted, Keira is more than happy to be welcoming...until she suspects that Adam could be intimately connected to the dangerous doings in Rio Seco.

How did you come to write this book?

I'd started writing a traditional mystery based on a scene I'd imagined: a woman, trapped inside a mortuary prep room. Except, suddenly, one of the draped bodies sat up and started talking to her. Right then, I knew I either had to take it to straight up horror, or something else. I ended up with something else: urban (rural?) fantasy set in a fictional small town in the Texas Hill Country. The basics of the scene remained. The story completely changed.

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