Blood of the Lamb

Book 1: A Novel of Secrets

by Sam Cabot

Genres: Occult & Supernatural; Suspense

Synopsis

Sam Cabot has drawn favorable comparisons to Dan Brown for Blood of the Lamb, his striking debut novel. American priest Thomas Kelly is called to Rome to track down a stolen Vatican manuscript. Cryptic 19th-century poems may lead to the document, but he'll need Italian art historian Livia Pietro's help to piece it all together. Thomas suspects the missing pages hold long-buried secrets, but he doesn't know Livia holds a dark secret as well--she's a vampire. Yet even Livia's true nature pales in comparison to the devastating truth they'll soon uncover.

Release date: August 6, 2013

Publisher: Berkley

Print pages: 480

Sample

All were assembled, silent, waiting: the twelve Counsellors sitting in rows right and left, and between them the Ponti¬fex, whose dark gaze made Livia uneasy even when she encountered him in the most casual of circumstances. Here, in the hush of stones and skeletons, it was all she could do not to squirm. She stood silent; it was protocol that the Pon¬tifex should speak first, though in truth Livia could not, at that moment, have spoken at all. A shuddering conflict had enveloped her, familiar from her first Summoning. Like all Noantri, Livia felt an immediate comfort, a sense of grateful belonging, in a group of her own people. It was physical and instantaneous, a calling of blood to blood. The relief of it had flooded around her when she walked into the crypt. But here, it was illusion. These black-robed Counsellors were not her friends. Standing before them for the first time, she’d sensed individual flashes of sympathy behind the unanimous disapproval. This time, though she didn’t yet know why she was here, nothing but anger filled the dank air.