By Blood We Live

First Glen Duncan gave us his monstrously thrilling genre-reinventing The Last Werewolf: the tale of Jake a werewolf with a profoundly human heart considering bringing to an end the timeless legend of his kind . . . Then Talulla Rising: Jakes werewolf lover mother to newborn twins on the run from those who want her destroyed . . . And now By Blood We Live: a stunningly erotic love story that gives us the final battle for survival between werewolves and vampires and one last searingand brilliantly ironiclook at what it means to be or not to be human. The story opens: Talulla has settled into an uneasy equilibrium. With her twins safely at her side and the devotion of her lover Walker she has what appears to be a normal family lifeexcept for their monthly transformation into werewolves hungry for human flesh. But even this hard-won tenuous peace is undermined for Talulla by nagging thoughts of Remshi the twenty-thousand-year-old vampire who haunts her dreams. For his part Remshi cant escape the feeling that he knows Talulla from many (many many) years before. Still they have their distractions: Talulla is being pursued by a fanatical Vatican-based Christian cult and Remshi is following a trail of reckless feedings by a newly turned vampire bent on revenge. But as the novel unfolds Talulla and Remshi are inexorably drawn to each otherand toward the moment when an ancient prophecy may finally come to pass.