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    A Fortune in Blood
    A Fortune in Blood
    A Fortune in Blood
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    A Fortune in Blood

    By Amy Sumida

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    A prequel to The Last Lullaby.
    Banning Dalca is just cutting his teeth as a blooder; moving up in the world of vampires. A favorite of his local gheara, a beautiful and cruel woman who leads the London Gura with razor-sharp claws. By chance, he sees Fortune; the human daughter of a sea merchant. His infatuation leads him to save her life and make her immortal. But immortality doesn't always mean invincibility. He may have saved Fortune's life just to lose her in a far more bloody way.

    If you've never read The Last Lullaby, this short story will give you a glimpse into one of its characters. If you are already addicted, you'll love this look into how Banning and Elaria first met.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmy Sumida
    Release dateMar 11, 2019
    ISBN9780463810866
    A Fortune in Blood
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    Amy Sumida

    Amy Sumida lives on an island in the Pacific Ocean where gods go to play. She sleeps in a fairy bed, high in the air, with two gravity-defying felines and upon waking, enjoys stabbing people with little needles, over and over, under the guise of making pretty pictures on their skin. She has no filter but has been fortunate enough to find friends who appreciate this... or at least tell her they do. She bellydances and paints pictures on her walls but is happiest with her nose stuck in a book, her mind in a different world than this one, filled with fantastical men who unfortunately don't exist in our mundane reality. Thank the gods for fantasy.The rest of this series is available on Amazon.com, there are two at the moment but will soon be much more, six are waiting for publishing and more are being written.

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      A Fortune in Blood - Amy Sumida

      A Fortune in Blood

      A prequel to The Last Lullaby

      Amy Sumida

      Copyright © 2016 Amy Sumida

      All rights reserved.

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      Chapter One

      The best day of my life was the day it ended.

      I was walking home with my maid, Ellen. I'd gone to take my father some dinner and spend some time with him, as I often did. My father was a sea captain. He imported goods for the merchants of London to sell. Father was very successful, and in the way of successful men, he'd made a few enemies. Those enemies wanted to hurt him. Not destroy him completely, just weaken him enough to be malleable.

      They tried to use me to do it.

      I suppose I should be thankful that they didn't rape and torture me, that they gave me a swift death. And I am thankful to those murderers in a way. I'm grateful that they hastened my path. I am not grateful for their intentions though, and what they did to my father. My death was the best day of my life, but it wasn't the greatest for him. After he heard of my death—my body was never found—Father sank into a deep depression which distracted him from his business and nearly proved fatal. Without a blooder's help, he may not have lived. Oh, but you don't even know what a blooder is yet. Perhaps it's best to allow you to discover it as I did. So, I'll go back and start from the beginning, just a few weeks before I died.

      The year was 1657. I was walking down Beech Street when I met him; the man who changed everything. He was blond in a way that I'd never seen before. His hair was nearly the same color as the locket my father had given me for my sixteenth birthday. It gleamed like polished gold, much too beautiful to be natural. But I knew of no cosmetic that could enhance hair to look like that. Then there were his eyes; flawless emeralds that seemed to catch the light of the street lamps within their translucent depths. Either that or

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