Matters of the Blood
Keira Kelly is a member of a powerful paranormal family, but she's chosen to live apart from her clan and among humans in the Texas Hill country. She still has family duties, though, like keeping an eye on her cousin Marty – a genetic aberration who turned out, poor guy, 100% human. Other than having to deal with her money-grubbing cuz, she's also having violent dreams – perhaps visions – featuring Marty as the victim of a vicious murder. Something sinister is going on in Rio Sicco and Kiera needs to get to the bottom of it while avoiding entanglement with her former lover, Sheriff Carlton Larson. When the irrestible and enigmatic Adam Walker, an old acquaintance, shows up and wants to get better acquainted, Keira is ready to be friendly – but there are clues that Adam could be connected to the murder.
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Sometime before the Revolution, Maria Lima was born in Matanzas, Cuba, to a family of voracious readers and would-be writers. In 1961, when it was clear that the situation wasn't going to change, her family emigrated to the United States, where Maria then discovered the magic of books. She started writing her own stories and has been at it ever since.
Her writing turned corporate as she used her journalism degree and cranked out marketing copy, feature stories and book reviews. The fiction muse kept calling and in the spring of 2005, was finally fed as Maria's first published short story, "The Butler Didn't Do It" was published in Chesapeake Crimes I and garnered an Agatha Award nomination for Best Short Story. Matters of the Blood is her first novel. Maria spends most of her days working as a Senior Web Project Manager in the DC area. Her evenings and weekends are spent writing.
Blood Lines / Keira Kelly
Blood Lines / Keira Kelly consists of five books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
