Vampire Blood (38 page)
Authors: Kathryn Meyer Griffith
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About two weeks ago, Jenny had been contacted by an editor at a large publisher who wanted to bring her three books out in print again. It hadn’t been the first time in the last ten years that she’d been approached, but it’d been the first time she said yes. The rights to the books had finally reverted back to her.
She’d also begun a new novel. A sort of vampire love story. The editor had offered to buy it sight unseen. Of course, he thought it was a horror story, fiction. Jenny knew better.
“It’s going to be some Christmas, isn’t it?” Jeff said, but knowing they deserved it after all they’d been through. In his mind, he’d told her, he could still see her locked in that cage as he had first found her, dirty and bloody, her dying mother lying in her arms. He’d involuntarily shuddered as he’d spoken of it. They’d earned the happiness they had now, he believed, and he’d fight tooth and nail to keep it.
“Yes, it is,” Jenny laughed back. She nursed her memories as well. In her mind, her mother and father were still here with her in the farmhouse. Ghosts, but happy at last, and together. She often heard their youthful laughter as she moved through the rooms, just like she heard the Albers when she visited Joey’s house. “To have my family all together. Be back with the ones I truly love.” She gave Jeff a particularly astute look, and smiled at her brother, ponytail and all, and her soon-to-be sister-in-law. Laurie had changed her hairdo, too. She’d liked Jenny’s new perm so well, she’d had one herself. It made all the difference, at least she no longer looked like she’d just stepped out of the sixties.
Jeff beamed at her.
“And happy,” Jenny continued. “This is what I’ve missed all these years.” Her eyes swept the room and gazed a brief moment out into the falling snow. “Being home back in Summer Haven. Where I’ve always belonged.”
Jeff took her hand. “Like they say, there’s no place like home.” His eyes were soft and grateful.
Then he hugged his wife tightly, kissing her in front of everyone; telling her, not for the first time, how pretty she was in her tight black slacks and green turtleneck sweater, her diamonds glittering on her ears, her long hair in soft flowing curls that softened the shape of her face, set off her lovely brown eyes and hid her scars. Her happiness made her glow.
“Here, here!” Joey raised his hot chocolate mug in an impromptu toast, and the others followed, laughing, as someone knocked loudly on the front door.
“I bet that’s Samantha,” Jenny exclaimed, squeezing Jeff’s hand tighter, her face lighting up.
“I bet you’re right.” Her husband smiled over at her, his eyes welling up with tears of happiness as he stood up and pulled Jenny to her feet.
Singing “Jingle Bells” softly, she answered the door.
About the Author:
Kathryn Meyer Griffith a wife of 32 years (husband, Russell), mother (one son, James) and grandmother (two grandchildren, Caitlyn and Joshua). She was a graphic designer in the corporate world for over 20 years but has been a writer for over 39 years. She’s published fourteen novels and seven short stories since 1984. And by July 2012 all of her older out-of-print Leisure and Zebra paperbacks will be re-released again by Damnation Books and Eternal Press in revised and updated paperbacks (with new covers) and in e-books for the first time!
She considers herself a horror writer but has also written paranormal romances, time travel and murder mysteries. She loves chocolate, cats and nature, classic rock and country music (her brother is a singer/songwriter and does the songs for all her self-made book trailers that are on her websites).
Her published books:
Evil Stalks the Night
(supernatural horror) 1984;
The Heart of the Rose
1985;
Blood Forge
1989;
Vampire Blood
1991;
The Last Vampire
1992;
Witches
1993 & Pinnacle 2000; a novella called
The Nameless One
in
Dark Seductions
, an erotic horror anthology 1993;
The Calling
(supernatural horror) 1994.
The Nameless One
– ALL OF THESE ARE BEING REPRINTED AS NEW PAPERBACKS AND E-BOOKS (for the first time ever!) between now and July 2012 by DAMNATION BOOKS and ETERNAL PRESS…watch for them!
Scraps of Paper 2003;
All Things Slip Away,
the second mystery in the series came out in 2006. E-book & paperbacks
Egyptian Heart
2007;
Winter’s Journey
2008;
The Ice Bridge
2008, and two ghostly short stories,
Don’t Look Back, Agnes
and
In This House. BEFORE THE END: A Time of Demons
, an apocalyptic saga from Damnation Books, June 2010.
The Woman in Crimson
, a vampire novel, from Eternal Press, September 2010.
Her websites:
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