"Homosexual mutant vampires in Hollywood... if it were a movie, I'd go see it."

This is the story of Ariane Dempsey, American mutt, closet sex goddess, and impatient scientific genius, and her insatiable drive to find out the truth about the vampire known as Orfeo Ricari, Italian scholar and poet, 200 years trapped in the beautiful body of a slim young daydreamer, wants nothing more than eternal rest, but he finds himself caught up in Ariane's obsession... and reveals his most terrible secret -- his vampire offspring, the fiendishly charismatic Daniel Blum...!

VOICE OF THE BLOOD takes us on a journey of erotic suffering, ecstatic wonder, and the very essence of the supernatural... and suggests that the supernatural that we seek has always surrounded us. Naughty, funny, bloody, philosophical, from the verdant rain-soaked graveyards of San Francisco to the psychadelic sunsets over crumbling hotels in Hollywood, you will watch it like a film, chew on it like your lover's forefinger, let it slide down your throat like drugged honey.

Is it funny? YES!
Is is gory? YES!
Is it terribly tragic and gothic? YES!
Does it have some of the raunchiest sex outside of Nicholson Baker's The Fermata? YES!

 

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT
VOICE OF THE BLOOD

"...tender and nostalgic..."
"I have read 3 times in one month."
"...the dynamics of sexual pursuance, consummation, and destruction as psycho/emotional/physiological vampirism..."
"I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS BOOK!"
"this book far beats anything Anne Rice and is the best book I've read in a long long time."
"Jemiah can write and she's not one bit boring."
"The strength of this vampire novel, and the weakness of others, is that Jefferson has actual characters."

 

the main characters

ariane * daniel * ricari * john * lovely

  

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read the PROLOGUE: HAEMATOPOESIS

about the genesis and writing of the book

about the author

www.jemiah.com