Blood (The Trish Vampire Horror Series #1) by K. T. Rose

We're touring Blood by K.T. Rose this week and it's the perfect read for vampire lovers this spooky season!

Blood (The Trish Vampire Horror Series #1)
by K. T. Rose
July 1, 2025
Genre: Vampire Horror/ Serial Killer Thriller 

• Missing persons
• Protagonist serial killer
• Femme Fatale
• Cat-and-mouse

Hunger. Desperation. Terror. A mother's love knows no bounds - neither does her appetite.

A vampire's existence is a delicate balance between predator and pretense. For Trish, that balance includes a loving husband, an innocent son, and a trail of bloodless corpses. When her latest hunt at Miller University goes awry, leaving a witness in its wake, her carefully maintained double life begins to crumble.

Months later, Trish sets her sights on a pure-hearted professor, but his death brings unexpected consequences. Captured by the victim's vengeful cousin and her violent friends, Trish faces a harrowing choice. She must either break free to protect her family or watch her perfect life dissolve into chaos. Can she escape before her husband, Randel, discovers the true nature of the monster he married?

Blood introduces K.T. Rose's chilling vampire horror thriller series. If you're drawn to dark supernatural tales, complex characters, and blood-chilling suspense, this story of maternal instinct versus monster nature will leave you breathless.

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Some graphic violence
Death

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K.T. Rose is a horror, thriller, supernatural, paranormal, and suspense author based in Detroit, Michigan. She shares her passion for spine-chilling stories with readers through flash fiction on her blog. Her works include Trinity of Horror, The Haunting of Gallagher Hotel, and the Netted series.

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Excerpt: Cross My Heart (Blood Book 3) by Elizabeth Morgan + giveaway

Cross My Heart (Blood Book 3) 
by Elizabeth Morgan
30.11.2020

275 pages
Cross my heart, and hope to die… You should be careful what you wish for.

Danielle Renaud would have never wished for this life of endless hunting and isolation, but it’s the only one she’s ever known. But while her second cousin, Heather Ryan, is off to single-handedly rid the world of Vampires, she is stuck on the side-lines.

Frustrated and concerned when Heather hasn’t checked in for over a fortnight, she decides it’s time to take matters into her own hands. What she doesn’t expect is to learn her childhood friend, Nathan, is also missing, or to discover him half-naked and shackled, lurking around their old hangout. And he needs her help, because to her horror, he is now one of the undead. Although she is trained to kill his kind, something about his creation and the circumstances surrounding it just don’t add up.

Promises should not be broken, but no one ever expects to die if one is.

Nathan Kennedy was warned that Vampires existed, but he always believed his childhood friend just suffered from an overactive imagination. Boy was he wrong. Dragged into a world he once made fun of and “turned” against his will, he will soon discover he has a role to play that even his Slayer Bestie couldn’t have cooked up.

Nothing is a coincidence.

Though the circumstances are extreme, fate has brought them back together, and they need to find Heather, the first born Infected, to make sense of what’s going on. But neither of them could have predicted the path that lies before them, or how much their lives were truly about to change … for the worse…

This title contains explicit language and some scenes with violence.

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Excerpt 1: 
The dream darkened. The images disintegrated to ash as something deep inside me stirred. That unusual, invisible tug I had quickly learnt was my new alarm clock, my body telling me that I now had to be awake, and therefore, without my consent, it pulled me into the realm of semi-consciousness. The innocent dream got lost in darkness. 

No, not a dream. I didn’t have the luxury of dreaming anymore. It was just a memory, and one that kept replaying in my mind every time I closed my eyes—my subconscious telling me that I owed an old friend one big, fat apology; an apology that would surely get me an ‘I told you so’ as a reply, and that was presuming I ever got to see her again. 

It was the truth. Everything she’d ever told me ... It’s all real. 

The past seemed like a pleasant place to live, but then again, anything was better than my current predicament, which proved nothing short of a nightmare. A cold, dark, twisted nightmare. 

“I told you t’be careful what you wish for.” 

Her voice rang in a soft and sweet whisper that I could feel dance across my skin, the usual taunting tone accompanying her words. 

“Go away, Elle.” 

“Make me.” 

A lock clicked. Hinges whined as heavy, rusted metal scraped against concrete. Light briefly touched my face, only to be overtaken by an unfamiliar presence that filled my door frame. My eyeballs hurt behind my lids, but I didn’t bother opening my eyes and indulging in the mild curiosity that involuntary tickled the back of my mind. Truth be told, I didn’t have the bloody energy to even try to look. Then again, if I had learnt one thing during my time in purgatory, it was that nothing ever good happened when you opened your eyes and that the things you did see weren’t always real. 

A crinkle of plastic accompanied the odd squeak and shuffle of clumsy feet. My visitor moved into the room, allowing the overhead lighting from the outer corridor to slither into my cell. Not as good as daylight, nowhere near, and yet being locked in the dark for such long periods of time had made my skin super-sensitive. That horrid illumination was all I had, all I could use to delude myself into pretending that I was really lay on a rock-hard stretcher in my back garden, and not some dank room in a strange facility in God only knows where the hell I could be. The light was cold and pale, not like the warmth from the sun, but regardless, I could feel it on my skin, feel its energy in a way I couldn’t before. 

Iron clamped around my jaw, breaking my momentary delusion. Not to mention the impact was so sudden, my lids snapped open, and my eyeballs practically bulged from their sockets. Jesus, talk about a wakeup call. 

The left side of my friend’s face remained in the shadows of the room, but the right ... The light barely touched him as if almost afraid to. His jaw was square, and from the patch of skin that was illuminated, he was as pale as every other Vampire I’d had the pleasure of meeting during my time here. His hair seemed dark, and he looked to be wearing black—the meatier fellows all seemed to wear black and have the role of ‘the muscle’ in this joint. Clearly, they were prison guards, and one other thing I had learnt during my stay? These guards didn’t have patience, not that human bouncers or security guards rarely did, but then again, humans couldn’t go around biting or beating the crap out of the people they were responsible for. 

He raised his left hand, and the red, opaque silhouette of my feeding tube caught the corner of my eye, a droplet ready to fall from the slit. The scent of blood touched my nostrils ... Jesus ... how I hated that I even knew that smell. 

“I’m not thirsty.” 

The words didn’t quite make it past my lips. Instead, they remained locked between my throat and teeth, but my new friend seemed to understand—this was made obvious by the tick in the visible side of his neck. Not that he gave a shite, which he proved by digging his ice-cold fingertips into my cheeks, pushing my flesh into my teeth so violently that I was sure they would have shattered, but being a compromising soul, I obliged and opened my mouth. Although I doubted anyone would class my mouth as being opened since my lips were vertical and the top lip was stuck in the opposite direction of the bottom. I no doubt looked like a fish mid-breath. 

“More like a fish with a botched lip job, mid-breath.” 

I said go away, Elle. I slanted my gaze to the right corner of the room, watching as the shadows solidified. 

“And I said, make me.” 

The tube was pushed between my teeth, the tip grazing along my tongue and pushed farther, until it was stuck halfway down my gullet. Blood, cold and thick, coated my throat, slithering into my system. My throat flexed, more from the slight discomfort than the need to drink or even to retch. Retching would be the right thing to do when someone force-fed you blood, but since I’d woken up, it was all I could eat—well, drink. Even though my mind was still plagued with disgust and the madness of the situation, a part of me had accepted the inevitable and ridiculous truth ... I was a Vampire.

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Elizabeth Morgan is a multi-published author of urban fantasy, paranormal, erotic horror, f/f, and contemporary; all with a degree of romance, a dose of action and a hit of sarcasm, sizzle or blood, but you can be sure that no matter what the genre, Elizabeth always manages to give a unique and often humorous spin to her stories.

Like her tagline says; A pick ‘n’ mix genre author. “I’m not greedy. I just like variety.”

And that she does, so look out for more information on her upcoming releases at her website: www.e-morgan.com

Away from the computer, Elizabeth can be found in the garden trying hard not to kill her plants, dancing around her little cottage with the radio on while she cleans, watching movies or good television programmes or curled up with her three cats reading a book.

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Release Day: Blood Will Tell (Blood #1) by Colleen Myers + giveaway

Ever wonder what would happen if TWILIGHT met DIVERGENT? Find out Colleen Myers’s BLOOD WILL TELL, book 1 in her new Blood Series!

Blood Will Tell (Blood #1)
by Colleen Myers

April 2, 2018

Genre: YA Dystopian/Fantasy
Format: Digital eBook
Unbeknownst to eighteen-year-old Isabelle, her dad inserted a vital DNA sequence into her blood that made her resistant to the Immortalus virus, but unlocked other capabilities that prove to be the key to the war between the human and vampire race.

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Colleen S. Myers was raised in a large catholic family in the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she grew up on Harlequin teen romances and stories from her mother’s days as a paramedic. She went on to attend Allegheny College majoring in Biology and English.

After college, Colleen spent a year in service in the Americorp giving back to the community at a local Pittsburgh Women Infants and Children Clinic (WICC) before attending Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine on a military scholarship.

Upon completing medical school, Colleen attended residency at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and was on base in Washington, DC during 9/11. She earned three meritorious service awards from the military. After serving seven years of active duty, she promptly landed a position at the VA to provide fellow veterans with optimum medical care. Still an avid fan of romances into adulthood, her love of the genre inspired her to hone her craft as a writer, focusing on contemporary romance and science fiction. Her background in medicine and the military provides an inspiring layer of creative realism to her stories and characters.

Her first book, Must Remember, the first book in the Solum series, is published by Champagne Press. The sequel, Can’t Forget, coming in June 2016, is the recipient of the 2015 RWA New England Readers Award.

Colleen currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband and son, and spends her spare time writing. She is also working on a new contemporary romance.

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Three Sheep Movie Review: Dracula Untold (2014)

Dracula Untold (2014)
92 min - Action | Drama | Fantasy

10 October 2014 (USA) 
Director: Gary Shore 
Writers: Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Bram Stoker
Stars: Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon

Facing threats to his kingdom and his family, Vlad Tepes makes a deal with dangerous supernatural forces - whilst trying to avoid succumbing to the darkness himself.

Denise

Well it seems that Vlad's gone batty and the Turks are gonna pay! Dracula Untold is the tale of how Vlad Tepes became a vampire. The story begins with a chronicle of Vlad's history where as a young boy he was given over to the Turks by his father, the king, to form an alliance to protect his kingdom. He was subjected to brutal treatment and torture, which honed him into one of the greatest warriors and he was given the name Vlad the Impaler. 

Years have passed and Vlad is now a benevolent king who loves his people and cherishes his wife and son beyond all reason. The Turks are back seeking tribute and once again calling for an offering of young boys. All seems hopeless when Vlad makes a deal with the big bad to gain the strength to defeat his enemies and save those he loves, all while trying to keep from turning into the big bad himself. 

If you are looking for cinematic genius here, you are not going to find it, but it is certainly an entertaining spin on the usual tale. What you will get is some fun CGI that does not have that new echo seen on so many of the action flicks today that are also produced for 3D and tend to make the film visually annoying. I will admit to one jump from a gotcha and a few moments of laughing out loud with one giant snort, which of course occurred just as the music climaxed then went silent with my snort echoing throughout the theater and likely causing a gotcha moment of my own to my fellow moviegoers.

The costuming was not that great and the hair and makeup, well let's just say that the producers might have been better served contacting that show on the Syfy channel about the eliminated contestants from that show; however, there are some great moments that for me made up for this. The scripting was a little too American English, which tended in my opinion to detract a bit from the authenticity of the era, but I watched with one eye and ear for writing this review and at least I could understand all that was being said. Even with the epic battle scenes there is not a lot of blood and gore, thus achieving the PG13 rating, but there is plenty that is implied. There were some moments of good acting and some cheese that as previously mentioned made me giggle; however, Luke Evans is pretty great and well he is Luke Evans . . . let me just say bathtub scene nuff said.

Bottom line, if you are looking for the next great classic cinematic film you are not going to find it here. However, if you are a fan of the genre, Dracula Untold is an entertaining tale with some great moments that make it worth seeing on the big screen. I enjoyed the film and left the theater with a smile on my face and will definitely be putting the DVD on my wishlist to watch it again when that comes out. 

I am going to rate this one a 3.5 to 4 sheep because I had fun.

Sharon

I have to completely agree with Denise's analysis of the film. But she didn't give enough information about HOW. F***ING. SEXY. LUKE EVANS. IS. as Dracula. Thor and Optimus Prime gotta make room for one more. 

Like Denise said, the script, costumes, CGI were all ho-hum. I never really felt emotionally connected to any of the characters, unless lust for Dracula counts. It was more like a bunch of great scenes strung together without much between them. There is one scene that pulled at my heartstrings; when Dracula is trying to save his wife.

The no blood thing was silly. Dracula wiped out an entire army (not sure if it was 1K or 10K) but at the end of it there was not one drop of blood on him...thinking one of his vampire powers was Teflon exterior. 

See all those dead people? He did that...

They stuck to the lore pretty well with changes that made Dracula more of a victim of circumstances rather than a monster. There were a lot of places the editor in me went "wait a minute..." or "WTF?". It seemed people would get to destinations very quickly considering the terrain they had to cross. Basically I could pick this movie apart bit by bit, but I won't because over all I enjoyed it. The trailer pretty much sums it up and if you are into that kind of movie then it is worth a matinee price for the chance to watch 91 minutes of Luke Evans. I will add I really liked the ending. It wasn't the one I was expecting and sets things up for a sequel in modern times.

3 3/4 "Bat Whispering" Sheep

Katie 

I'm sorry but Sharon and Denise are not giving this movie it's full due. This film was SOOOO much fun! I loved it. Sure, things here and there were a little ho-hum (like the wigs) but overall this was a fantastic fresh take on a classic tale. There is a lot here to sink your teeth into! 

"Hey honey, so don't freak out BUT I just defeated that whole army of like 1000 dudes." LOL Vlad you so funny. "Negations didn't work." Yeah, I gathered that from the new human bone floor we have in our bedchanmer. No worries, marrow is good for your hair right? 

Dragon Armor for the win! 

I felt for my boy Drac, his sweet family and those traitors village of back stabbers. They could have stood by the dark prince, but that's on them and ultimately you get what you desires. 

A super long tongue moment had me cringing in the overpriced movie theater chair. But all the stellar action scenes were just AB- blood on top of this bat wing fun. He can control the creatures of the night folks! AMAZING. 

I loved it. The dragon lore was an added bonus and the ending scene certainly gives you a segue to the next install. Which I hope we get! Haters gonna hate and some reviewers will be harsh but like what you like. If you love vampires and adore Vlad as much as I do, then go see this one! 

4 and 1/2 "Luke Evans come bite me!" Sheep