OF LIONS AND HEROES

    It is ironic that in the news people deeply concerned with the humane treatment of animals have found a cause célèbre in the hunt and killing of a wild African lion in Zimbabwe this week, when in the latest Kathryn Desmarais Gothic Mystery, Bloodtrail, Kate is faced with just such a situation - a group of people who hold life cheap and have placed a weakened and starved lion into an arena with two healthy, heavily armed men bent on torturing him for the pleasure and entertainment of onlookers.

    Read Bloodtrail and see how our heroine deals with the situation!

THINGS TO DO IN VEGAS WHEN YOU'RE UNDEAD

Sorry it's been a while since I posted on this blog. Been busily promoting the release of Bloodtrail, the enthralling sequel to Bloodflow. Sales are steady and we're pleased. I'd like a few more reviews on Amazon.com and Goodreads.com but I am pleased with the ones I have. It strikes me as I read these reviews though, that many readers are reluctant to reveal certain details about the book for fear of giving spoilers. Well, as the author of the book there are certain details I don't mind you knowing, as I think they help readers see what a fun and exciting adventure the book is!

So below is a list of some of the details I don't mind you knowing about Bloodtrail before you buy:

• In the first book, Bloodflow, Kate only had enough time to learn a few things about what it means to be a vampire when it became necessary to betray Darkthorne and help Litchner's militia destroy him. Even then, she was in a haze of denial. Now, in Bloodtrail, a year later, she still hasn't fully come to grips with what it means to be one of the undead. She has made the necessary concessions to her new nature - she only works at night, she feeds as her animal counterparts, the Falcon and the panther, and no longer eats regular food. But she is still striving to live her life as normally as possible. She avoids the use of her new capabilities where possible, has refused to explore what other powers she may have that Darkthorne didn't have time to teach her, and has otherwise entirely ignored the fact that she is no longer human. But this sort of denial of her true nature is a time bomb, and on her new assignment to find a poor misguided runaway teenaged girl, Kate will find herself confronted with the realities of her new form of existence in brutal ways that will no longer allow her to deny it - she is a vampire!
• Kate runs afoul of a cabal of creatures that look entirely human but who are able to draw off of the most foul, greedy, prurient, unsavory emotions of human kind as if it were a narcotic. They are addicted and have resorted to hosting a series of gruesome and bloody gladiatorial games to elicit these emotions from their guest in order to get their fix. The creatures are able to recognize Kate for what she is, and she them, but as they lack any real power Kate dismisses them as no real threat. But struggle as Kate might with the moral and ethical implications of what it means to be a vampire, the leader of these creatures, a Mr. Konig, entices her, tempts her, and seduces her to drop all pretense to the hero's ethic and fully and freely indulge her power, take her place as superior to the humans around her, and rule them.
• In all his eight centuries of roaming the Earth, Darkthorne claimed to never have met another vampire like himself, except those he, himself, fathered and later destroyed out of self preservation. Kate herself learns what this means first hand as she inadvertently encounters a newly-minted vampire and must fight him to the death in all their animal forms - she the panther and the falcon, he a hyena and a giant bat.
• As in the first book, Kate finds herself pitting her supernatural powers against man's technology in a climactic scene, trapped in the belly of an unmanned fighter jet that is targeting two innocent young people fleeing for their lives.
• Early in the book Kate saves the life of a very unlikely ally who, in the end, defends, protects and nurses her as she strives to recover from a catastrophic, near-fatal conflagration.

These are just some of the thrilling adventures waiting for you in Bloodtrail, sequel to the equally as exciting Bloodflow!

"BLOODTRAIL"

    "Bloodtrail," the hotly anticipated sequel to "Bloodflow" and second volume in the Kathryn Desmarais Gothic Mysteries is finally complete and at the presses now, release data to be announced!

    "Bloodtrail" takes Kate to sin city, Las Vegas, in search of a misguided runaway teenage girl. Kate, who is still struggling to come to terms with what she has become, runs afoul of a cabal of strange subhumans who feed off of the basest, most prurient emotions of human-kind. These creatures may seem harmless at first, but underestimating them may just be the last mistake Kate ever makes.

    As part of our promotion, because Bloodtrail takes place in Las Vegas, the world's adult playground, we are giving away decks of "Bloodtrail" poker-size playing cards. Go to KevinPaulTracy.com to enter!

    Thanks to these sites for listing our contest for us. visit them for other great giveaways!

• Online-Sweepstakes.com
• HyperSweep.com
• GiveawayCube.com

More listings to come...

NEW RELEASE: BLOODFLOW

Available RIGHT NOW at all major booksellers and in all major ebook formats, my new gothic mystery, "Bloodflow." Check your local bookstore and if they don't carry it, demand that they stock it now (give them the ISBN:978-1936991679)!

You can also find it on Amazon sites around the world, Barnes and Noble. etc. Electronic formats can be found at these sites, too, including Kindle and Nook, as well as on such book sites as Smashwords and Omnilit.

If you visit the publisher's site, TWB Press, you can get all these formats plus you can see the thrilling trailer for the book and read an excerpt!

When you read the book, feel free to drop me a line, let me know what you think of it.

BLOODFLOW, A Gothic Mystery by Kevin Paul Tracy

My new release, "Bloodflow," will drop Wednesday, December 18, 2013. This is the first in a gothic mystery series featuring one of the toughest, smartest, and sexiest female protagonists I've ever written: Kathryn Desmarais. Kate is a private investigator for International Investigations, Inc., or Tripple-I, a large private investigation firm in Manhattan. She's tough, savvy, an expert in martial arts.

In this first book, the search for an ancient casket leads Kate into the midst of a battle between two undead souls, each backed with armies poised to wage war. One, the most powerful vampire to ever stalk the Earth, has plans for Kathryn, plans that have nothing to do with happily-ever-after. Now, everyone she loves is in danger, and the only way to save them is to either find a way to stop the coming conflagration before the city itself is bathed in blood...or pick a side.

I'm calling this a "grown-up" gothic horror story. You won't find any melodramatic teen angst dripping from these pages. And the monsters you find between these covers aren't watered-down shadows of the legends from which they are spawned. These are the real, full-blown evils under your bed. They are the genuine hungry hell-beasts lurking just behind the threshold of your half-open closet.

I hope you enjoy reading "Bloodflow" as much as I enjoyed writing it. As my editor described it: "The cool factor is very high in this one!"

And check out the bitchen trailer!