Kindle Edition
Published
February 18th 2013
ISBN: 9780989037
Summary
For 17-year-old Emma
Wong, spending a summer in England should be a dream come true. Gorgeous
scenery? Check. Lots of hot guys with accents? Yes, please.
Throw in an estranged mom, annoying new stepdad, and drooling baby half-brother, and it’s a disaster even her favorite cherry red leather jacket can’t fix. Even worse, there’s (hot) live-in research assistant Josh to contend with. The only thing more embarrassing than drunk-kissing him hours after they meet? Knowing he’ll be witness to her family’s dysfunction all. summer. long.
But when Emma meets a mysterious girl who happens to be a Druid, her vacation suddenly promises to be far more intriguing than she anticipated. Powerful rituals, new friends, an intoxicating sense of freedom...and Simon, the sexy foreign stranger she was hoping for. It’s all a perfect distraction from dirty diapers and awkward family dinners.
Trouble is, intriguing doesn’t often mean simple. And Emma is about to discover just how not simple her life really is.
By Blood is a novel about the ways that blood can bind us to others – or tear us apart.
Throw in an estranged mom, annoying new stepdad, and drooling baby half-brother, and it’s a disaster even her favorite cherry red leather jacket can’t fix. Even worse, there’s (hot) live-in research assistant Josh to contend with. The only thing more embarrassing than drunk-kissing him hours after they meet? Knowing he’ll be witness to her family’s dysfunction all. summer. long.
But when Emma meets a mysterious girl who happens to be a Druid, her vacation suddenly promises to be far more intriguing than she anticipated. Powerful rituals, new friends, an intoxicating sense of freedom...and Simon, the sexy foreign stranger she was hoping for. It’s all a perfect distraction from dirty diapers and awkward family dinners.
Trouble is, intriguing doesn’t often mean simple. And Emma is about to discover just how not simple her life really is.
By Blood is a novel about the ways that blood can bind us to others – or tear us apart.
SOUNDTRACK FOR BY BLOOD
To get in the mood to write By Blood, I listened to British pop music for the fun Oxford
touristy bits and dreamy, atmospheric songs for the Druid rituals. Some of my
favorites:
Follow Me Home,
Sugababes
Sin Sin Sin, Robbie
Williams
You Never Get What You
Deserve, Starsailor
Goodbye My Lover, James
Blunt
People Got a Lotta
Nerve, Neko Case
On My Way Back Home,
Band of Horses
Your Heart Is As Black
As Night, Melody Gardot
First Love, Adele
Cannonball, Damien Rice
Criminal, Fiona Apple
If You Want Me, from
the movie Once
Finding My Own Way,
Charlotte Church
The Moon and Sky, Sade
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Tracy E. Banghart is a cheesy
movie–loving, fantasy football–playing (go Ravens!), globe-trotting Army
wife who began “practicing” her craft at the age of five, when she
wrote her first story. She loves visiting the international friends she
met while pursuing her MA in Publishing and spends a portion of every
summer at her family’s cabin in Canada, where she finds inspiration and
lots of time to relax on the dock. She lives with her husband, son, two
lazy dogs and one ornery cat. When not writing or spending time with
her family, she is on a mission to bake the perfect cupcake.
Jackie
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