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Fifteen years after a madman hunted down her parents, Leah Wilde is determined to find the truth behind the killer's monstrous powers. She is the last in a line of shapeshifters called the Long Lives. The few who remain are scattered about the globe. Leah and her mother, Hannah, are determined to find them and to save them from extinction.
But they are not alone in their search. For centuries an ancient being has thrived by killing members of the Long Lives. Over a hundred years ago in Budapest, a boy named Izsak witnessed unspeakable sacrifices within his orphanage, all to appease this ravenous beast. Today the monster stalks America, preying on the young in its quest for immortality.
WRITTEN IN THE BLOOD is the stunning next chapter in Stephen Lloyd Jones's inventive and exciting saga, an ambitious story of investigation and chase, of heroism and evil.
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PRAISE FOR
THE STRING DIARIES:
"Terrifying, and deliciously so . . . A sophisticated horror story that induces elemental terror. It's perfect for the beach, particularly since you don't want to be alone with it in the dark."--New York Daily News
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"This is a book of authorial wizardry, as Jones hopscotches among three time periods and locales (late 1800s Hungary; 1970s France and England; and present-day Snowdonia, in northern Wales) with grace, wit and dexterity."--Joy Tipping, Dallas Morning News
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"Jones doles out his narrative revelations with patience, turning over his cards deliberately like a well-trained casino dealer."--Entertainment Weekly
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"The String Diaries is an engrossing, mind-bending supernatural tale, and Stephen Lloyd Jones is as exciting a new voice as I've come across in some time, a writer who understands what makes the pulse race."--Michael Koryta, author of Those Who Wish Me Dead
Synopsis
See the girl. Leah Wilde is twenty-four, a runaway on a black motorbike, hunting for answers while changing her identity with each new Central European town.
See the man, having come of age in extraordinary suffering and tragedy in nineteenth-century Budapest: a witness to horror, to love, to death, and the wrath of a true monster. Izsv k still lives in the present day, impossibly middle-aged. He's driven not only to hunt this immortal evil but to find his daughter, stolen from an Arctic cabin and grown into the thing Izsv k has sworn to kill.
See the monster, a beautiful, seemingly young woman who stalks the American West, seeking the young and the strong to feed upon, desperate to return to Europe where her coven calls.
Written in the Blood is the epic thriller of the year, a blazing and dexterous saga spanning generations, and threading the lives of five individuals driven by love, by sacrifice, by hunger and by fear. They seek to save a race -- or to extinguish it forever.
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About the Author
Stephen Lloyd Jones studied at Royal Holloway College, University of London and is the director of a major London media agency. He is the author of The String Diaries.