The Blood That Bonds (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Two Ashley Majors: Two Ashley Majors - 2AM - was named for the time she was conceived. When her mother died in a car accident, Two's father fell into depression and alcohol, his relationship with his daughter becoming strained to the point that, at age sixteen, she left him for the streets. Two made it to the age of nineteen relatively unscathed, surviving by hustling pool, picking pockets, and similar petty crimes. She fell into heroin and prositution by chance, when a severe beating left her unconscious and in the care of Darren, the man who would become her pimp.
• Theroen Anders: Theroen Anders was born in Holland in the year 1586 AD. As a young boy, his parents emigrated to England. At twenty-three, Theroen became a vampire at the hands of Abraham. Theroen's master has largely kept him out of vampire society for the last four hundred years. On a relatively routine exploration of a Brooklyn neighborhood, he sensed Two and became enamored with her, watching her from afar for quite some time before setting his plans in motion. Theroen is an "Eresh-Chen" ... something which means a great deal more than he has been allowed to understand.
• Abraham Schorr: Abraham was born more than one hundred years before the birth of Christ. Even before his conversion to vampirism, he was not a man of good, and afterwards he was left almost wholly stripped of any sort of sentimentality or compassion. He views his fledgling vampires as his property, keeping them away from vampire society and forcing them to live with him in his stronghold outside of Binghamton, New York. Here, he often gives them petty tasks to perform, as much for his own amusement at holding such control as out of any real need.
• Melissa / Missy Williams: Once, there was only Melissa, but Abraham's powerful blood broke her mind during her transformation into a vampire, leaving her with two distinct personalities: Melissa, a bright and cheerful girl, and Missy, a dark and twisted creature in love with pain, death, and torment. Both girls share a love for sex, and both are indiscriminate about the gender (or number) of partners they spend their nights with. They have lived in Abraham's mansion for over a hundred years, each one in possession of the body at different times.
• Ms. Tori Perrault: Born in 1970 and raised in a small Ohio town, Tori was attending Syracuse University when she was abducted by Abraham. He forced his blood upon her and, like Melissa, the resulting shock did great damage to her mind. In Tori's case, it reverted her to a feral, animalistic creature doomed to roam the mansion grounds, relying on the other vampires to periodically bring her food. Tori often tears her victims to pieces in the process of feeding on them. Tori is far stronger than a vampire of her age should be, and faster even than Theroen.
• Samantha Brea: Samantha is, in her own words, "just a poor girl from the Bronx." She grew up in a housing project with her parents and two siblings, and was attending community college with the intent on transfering to a four-year school. She met Melissa at a night club, where the vampire seduced her, bringing her home to the mansion.
• Darren Cook: Darren is an amoral pimp and a drug pusher with two business degrees. He owns a building in East New York, a downtrodden section of Brooklyn, where he houses his girls, who trade their services for the heroin he provides.
• Rhes Thompson & Sarah Taylor: Rhes and Sarah are Two's closest friends. They rent a duplex in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Rhes works as a bouncer/doorman for a very successful bar in Manhattan. Sarah was blinded in a childhood car accident and works as a teacher at a school for the blind. She rarely leaves the house without her seeing-eye dog, a black labrador named Jake. They are the most "normal" people that Two knows, a pair of college-educated, mid-twenties adults who are building a life together.
• Molly Smith: Molly is a twelve year-old orphan, a heroin addict, a prostitute in Darren's employ, and Two's roommate. Despite her situation, she retains a sweet, innocent demeanor. It is perhaps this, more than anything else, that makes her so valuable to Darren. She has long, brown hair which she keeps in pigtails, and blue eyes. She is very thin, only just beginning to show breasts, and dresses mostly in jeans and t-shirts. She has an assortment of dress-up outfits that Darren sometimes makes her wear for work.
• Lisette: Lisette was Theroen's first love.
• Naomi Ames: Naomi was an orphan living on the street and picking pockets for a living when Lissette found her. She moved in with Lissette and eventually became the vampire's fledgling.
• Isaac: Isaac is a vampire who seeks to punish Lisette for her perceived transgressions against their laws, the Codes of Eresh
• Sid: Sid owns and manages the bar at which Rhes works as a doorman.
• Lisa: Add a description of this character.
• Mona Perrault
• Jake: Jake is Rhes and Sarah's dog.
• Father Leopold
• Mr. Jim Perrault
• Charlotte
• Sam
• Rhes
• Sean

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• “"Those who do not change wither. Those who do not change die."”

  Theroen to Abraham

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• Man is corrupt. Man is evil. And if man, Theroen, is created in God’s image, then is not your God corrupt? Is not your God evil?

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• “Those who do not change wither. Those who do not change die,”

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• “Who you were yesterday, this morning, two hours ago is immaterial. Understand that. Believe it. I do not choose to measure your worth by past actions.

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• “If ever your God was listening, little sheep, he has long since gone deaf.”

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• “You can’t have love without need. You can have need without love.

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• Sex is sex. Love is love. The first is a raw biological process, the latter is something more.”

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• Continued in Book 2: Blood Hunt

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• regardless of pretty words, she took vicious pleasure in walking away.

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• Learn More http://writing.cwbuecheler.com/novels/blood-hunt/

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• “Sin challas est mura. Si mura vallas etruars.” Isaac seemed to be reciting, as if the sentences had been drilled into him. “I have read the scrolls, Isaac. Without law there is chaos. With chaos comes destruction.

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• Upstate New York, NY, USA
• New York City, NY, USA
• London, England
• Lima, Ohio

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Followed by Blood Hunt.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Christopher Buecheler (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Garry Brown (Illustrator) - Illustrations for The Blood That Bonds website and original eBook cover
2. Adrian Dadich (Cover Artist) - Cover illustration for the print edition and second eBook edition of The Blood That Bonds.

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• Dewey: 813

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Vampires
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Action & Adventure
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Vampires

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• Christopher Buecheler: Author's website

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