Jeannie Holmes

August 14, 2010 - 02:00 PM

Local author Jeannie Holmes will be at Page & Palette on Saturday, August 14, from 2pm to 4pm to sign her book, Blood Law.  In this page-turning debut thriller, Holmes takes readers into the sultry world of vampires and death, prejudice and betrayal, in an all-too familiar small-town setting.

Praise for Blood Law
"Jeannie Holmes has reinvented the vampire protagonist with style and a galloping plot. Alexandra Sabian is smart, forceful, and tormented by a past that someone has tapped into to murder vampires in small town Jefferson, Mississippi. BLOOD LAW is a rollercoaster ride, and Holmes combines an original take on the urban fantasy with a fast pace and classic suspense to deliver a series that readers will devour." ~ Carolyn Haines, 2010 Harper Lee Award Winner and the author of the popular Sarah Booth Delaney mystery series and editor of DELTA BLUES

About the Book
A provocative and savvy vampire, Alexandra Sabian moves to the sleepy hamlet of Jefferson, Mississippi—population 6,000, half vampires—to escape the demons lurking in her past. As an enforcer for the Federal Bureau of Preternatural Investigations (FBPI), Alex must maintain the uneasy peace between her kind and humans, including Jefferson’s bigoted sheriff, who’d be happy to see all vampires banished from town. Then really dead ...vamps start turning up— beheaded, crucified, and defanged, the same gruesome manner in which Alex’s father was murdered decades ago. For Alex, the professional has become way too personal. Things get even more complicated when the FBPI sends in some unnervingly sexy backup: Alex’s onetime mentor, lover, and fiancé, Varik Baudelaire. Still stinging from the betrayal that ended their short-lived engagement, Alex is determined not to give in to the temptation that soon threatens to short-circuit her investigation. But as the vamp body count grows and the public panic level rises, Varik may be Alex’s only hope to stop a relentless killer who’s got his own score to settle and his own bloody past to put right.

 About the Author

Jeannie Holmes is a native of southwest Mississippi. Before receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of South Alabama, she worked in a variety of interesting fields, including medical records, independent auction houses, and owned a small handcrafted jewelry business. In addition to working on the sequel to BLOOD LAW, she received her Master of Arts degree in English in December 2008 and lives in Mobile, AL with her husband and four neurotic cats.