Avriel Kaplan: Well dressed, well-groomed, beautifully handsome, quiet, and brooding, until you get him alone, and exactly the kind of man Ariel Declan doesn't need to know. But, that is not for her to decide. He is the one she cannot resist and certainly doesn't want to. Someone sits quietly in the darkness and watches how the pieces fall together while outside in the cruel world, more and more people are dying, and the explanations aren't adding up. Each death was deemed as "death by natural causes" but, was it? The Chief Medical Examiner doesn't think so. Someone noticed. Someone is was listening. No one cares until the suspicious and unexplained death of a wealthy man's wife and several other high-profile cases land in the laps of the police. They can't explain what happened to all the blood went, why so many have died, or where have all the missing have gone? Ariel falls deeper into the man that is Avriel Kaplan. But who is he really? She is still wondering. Is he a man or something else entirely? Will she ever figure it out? How much further can she fall and what is the status of their relationship? Delve deeper into their world as they thrust headlong into a world of swirling chaos, mischief, murder, and love. Someone or something is hunting the homeless and unwanted in L.A. Someone or something is killing her citizens in ways that cannot be understood by the smartest among men. And something is stalking Ariel and is hell-bent on making a victim out of Avriel too. Who or what is killing all those people? Where did those yellow eyes come from? Are they responsible for all the deaths and disappearances? What do the authorities have to say about it? Unravel the mysteries, read BloodRite, book three in the Blood Lies series.

Avriel Kaplan: Well dressed, well groomed, beautifully handsome, quiet and brooding and exactly the kind of man Ariel Declan doesn't need to know. But, that is not for her to decide. Alexander Kirk: wickedly handsome, well known and well liked, egotistical and arrogant. He has the looks but lacks the brains. He's exactly the kind of man she doesn't want. But he wants her. Scott Hoying: devilishly handsome, highly intelligent, reckless and caring. He's more than anyone would have ever thought he was. Esther Kaplan: Beauty incarnate, powerful and strong, elegant and patient. She is all that she wants to be, and so much more. Kevin Olusola: tall dark and handsome, a prominent club owner, her biggest supported and her boss. In his club, all the pieces of the puzzle come together. Will they fall into place? Someone sits quietly in the darkness and watches how the pieces fall together while outside in the cruel world people were dying at an alarming rate. Each death was deemed as "death by natural causes" but, was it? One ME didn't think so. No one noticed. No one was listening. No one cared until the suspicious and unexplained death of wealthy man's wife. Money buys you everything, especially murder. But, was it murder?

Avriel Kaplan: Well dressed, well groomed, beautifully handsome, quiet and brooding, until you get him alone, and exactly the kind of man Ariel Declan doesn't need to know. But, that is not for her to decide. He is the one she cannot resist and certainly doesn't want to. Scott Hoying: devilishly handsome, highly intelligent, reckless and caring. He's more than anyone would have ever thought he was. Mitch Grassi: Astoundingly beautiful, carefree and elegant. But even he gets rattled. Esther Kaplan: Beauty incarnate, powerful and strong, elegant and patient. She is all that she wants to be, and so much more. Someone sits quietly in the darkness and watches how the pieces fall together while outside in the cruel world, more and more people are dying, and the explanations aren't adding up. Each death was deemed as "death by natural causes" but, was it? The Chief Medical Examiner doesn't think so. Someone noticed. Someone is was listening. No one cares until the suspicious and unexplained death of a wealthy man's wife and several other high-profile cases land in the laps of the police. They can't explain what happened to all the blood went, why so many have died, or where have all the missing have gone? Ariel falls deeper into the man that is Avriel Kaplan. But who is he really? Is he a man or something else entirely? Will she ever figure it out? Delve deeper into their world as they thrust headlong into a world of swirling chaos, mischief, murder and love. Who is Mitch Grassi? What is he doing in LA? What is he to Scott, and what did he do to earn Avriel's anger and hatred. Take a walk in the memories of Avriel, Scott, and Mitch as the story of their triangle unfolds. Who or what is killing all those people? Where did those yellow eyes come from? Are they responsible for all the deaths and disappearances? What do the authorities have to say about it? Unravel the mysteries, read BloodLust, book two in the Blood Lies series.

Avriel Kaplan a man of power and distinction, quiet and brooding, handsome as the devil with an angel's heart hidden deep within his everlasting soul sits night after night at the end of the bar. He's more than human and far from evil and he never leaves the bar alone. He is what he is. He cannot deny it can he? Ariel Decklan a strong-willed intelligent woman, a bartender with bright emerald eyes a quick wit, brilliant mind, a bright smile and a secret power growing within her that she must learn to control. She watched him for months on end unaware that as she was watching she was being watched. He kept his eyes hidden, his smile from his lips and his heart carefully restrained and guarded until the day she inadvertently touched his hand. Out on the streets of LA, something evil lurks taking the lives of the city's untouchables and undesirables alike, people who have committed crimes against their fellow man, wives, husbands, cousins, brothers, sisters, friends; people, their lives mysteriously taken from them. As police and the Cheif Medical Examiner investigate the deaths they lead them to a strange conclusion and an unlikely place. That evil seeks her for the power that lives in her. Can Avriel protect the girl from the evil that lurks out in the city and still keep the desire that burns within from claiming her life too? In Darkness We Lie is a series of short pieces that are out of sequence, out of time, yet just as much a part of the story as any of the chapters you'll find in any of the books, past, present and future. Most Stories will have mature content. 18+ please. --Published-- BloodStream BloodLust --In Process-- BloodRite