What's a girl to do when she discovers she's the main course on the menu?

Hip, funny Milagro de los Santos thinks she's finally found love and a home at the California ranch of fabulous Oswald Grant and his urbane relatives, who have a rare genetic disorder that some call vampirism. But Milagro is bewildered when she's excluded from an ancient and mysterious midnight ceremony whose participants include Oswald's unfriendly parents, a creepy family elder, and Milagro's ex-lover, the powerful and decadent Ian Ducharme. What skeletons are the vampires keeping in their designer closets?

When Milagro's life is threatened by a rogue family member, she flees to the desert to hide. Instead of solitude, she encounters an egomaniacal actor, a partying heiress, a sly tabloid reporter, and a lavish spa full of dark secrets -- all of which might help her find a way home.

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Posted by Vladimir Wed, 03/21/2007 - 01:48

 

Rogues Gallery

Throughout the ages, attacks on people have been attributed to supernatural creatures like werewolves and vampires, but in 1886, a German neurologist named Richard von Krafft-Ebing noted the compulsive and sexual presentation of the attacks. He wrote about them in Psychopathia Sexualis, and many of his 238 case histories concerned a violent eroticism triggered by blood.

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Murder suspect: 'I am a vampire who sucks blood'

November 19, 2007 (thisislondon.co.uk) -- A suspect in the Meredith Kercher murder was arrested in Germany yesterday.  Rudy Hermann Guede, whose bloody fingerprints were allegedly found in the British student's bedroom, was picked up on a train.

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Chapter 13: A New Home

After being kicked out of her last home, Saraphine has wonder aimlessly about looking for a place that would accept her unique views.

After hearing roomers that the long time shut down Black Raven Inn was finally reopened, she decides go for a visit and to see if maybe, just maybe, she will fit in.As Saraphine neared the road that led up to the Inn she could her laughter and talking. A man and a woman.

"Should I go up and inquire or should I leave them alone?" Saraphine wonders.She stands at the end of the road for quiet some time. Wondering.

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Spit of Vampire Bat May Help Stroke Victims

January 10, 2003 (The Chicago Sun-Times) - An experimental clot-busting drug that someday might limit damage from strokes is derived from a most unusual source-- vampire bats. The drug might lengthen the three-hour treatment window that limits the effectiveness of the only approved drug in use, according to a study published today in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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Chapter 33: The Two Men

*noticing that some one is behind her, Saraphine stops and turns around in time to see the dashing man flying over head*

*not able to speak Saraphine just stands there as the beautiful lady walks up to them and listens to them talk*

Just as she is about to say something she and Lovely are put to sleep.

Saraphine Anura
14 May 2001

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