Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Back Cover Text for "Staked!"

John Simons stretched out his hand toward John-Peter and offered him the dark crimson liquid in his half full goblet.

“For the blood,” John Simons said, “is the life.”

Behind him, Karla inhaled deeply. “Oh, gosh, John-Peter! What does this mean?”

“I don’t know,” John-Peter said, “but I’m going to find out.”

For seventeen-year-old John-Peter Simotes, prodigy of a college music professor that died from a mysterious illness and was staked by his best friend’s vampire-slayer father, growing up in a remote fishing village means tolerating an English teacher mother, enduring a Bible-thumping grandfather, working for a newspaper delivery uncle and a funeral director stepfather,  playing with astral projection, and waiting for the right opportunity to rescue the princess trapped in a bedroom mirror.

So when John-Peter accidentally discovers a diary written by his deceased great-grandmother, revealing her claims that a famous nineteenth century pianist and composer with a connection to the village and a resemblance to the music professor was actually a vampire, he and his best friend, Karla Dyer, decide to resurrect the vampire to prove her theory.

But experiments with magic and immortality do more than test the information set forth by a mentally unstable woman. They unlock the truth about John-Peter’s real identity, the evil motives of people he trusts, and the mission upon which he must embark to save them all.

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