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    Murderous Little Darlings: A Tale of Vampires, #1
    Murderous Little Darlings: A Tale of Vampires, #1
    Murderous Little Darlings: A Tale of Vampires, #1
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    Murderous Little Darlings: A Tale of Vampires, #1

    By John Hennessy

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    Three siblings. An endless list of victims. A whole lot of time to kill.

     

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    With two specimens of the undead on either side of her, Juliana knew there was no escape. Kill the one they had selected for her, or be killed, and become one of them. What had the neighbours in the road called them, back when their childhood pranks were just that? Oh yes, she remembered now. Murderous Little Darlings. They had the faces of angels, but possessed the very soul of the Devil. Marcus had fully embraced his vampire side from the moment he was born. Rocco was the second eldest, and had fought the temptation all of his life. Then Marcus finally broke him.That just left Juliana. Will she resist them, or join in the hunt?

     

    A black comedy from the author of Stormling and Dark Winter, Murderous Little Darlings is the first of a seemingly unrelated set of vampire novellas, collectively known as A Tale of Vampires.Some infrequent but strong swearing, plus fantasy horror elements are contained within this book.

     

    Love the Tale of Vampires books? Complete the series!

    Recommended reading orderPrequel : Dawn of the New Breed

    I: Murderous Little Darlings

    II: The Blood and the Raven

    III: Innocent While She Sleeps

    IV: Dream the Crow's Black Dream

    V: Reunion of the Blood

    VI: Our Hearts Go to their Graves (new for 2020)

    VII: The Final Tale of Vampires Story (release date TBA)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Hennessy
    Release dateSep 22, 2015
    ISBN9781502863065
    Murderous Little Darlings: A Tale of Vampires, #1
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    John Hennessy

    Born in 1988, John Hennessy became entranced by the world of fantasy and sci-fi at a young age, playing video games and reading books for many long nights/early mornings. He started writing his debut novel Life Descending during his junior year of High School in 2005. He wanted to write something different for fantasy readers, something without any stock copy/paste characters, supreme evil lords, who you never see and who are just evil because they are evil. A story without class-defined skills, mana potions, and the usual D&D adventure group out on the same old quest. He wanted to write a new story that gets away from the stale fantasies with farmer boys, blacksmith apprentices, and peasants who turn world heroes. Oh yeah, and he really wanted to get away from stories with prophecies and 'chosen ones.'After he graduated from Western Washington University in 2011, he hired Sara Stamey, the editing/publishing professor at Western, edit Life Descending (The Cry of Havoc, Book 1), finally releasing his debut after six years of crafting, learning, rewriting, and absorbing caffeine as fuel so he could stay awake at the keyboard. Life Descending has since been praised by reviewers, even earning a finalist spot in ForeWord Magazine's 2011 Book of the Year Awards. Darkness Devouring (The Cry of Havoc, Book 2) has since been released in late 2012.In 2012 he released At the End (The Road to Extinction, Book 1) as a self-published book. Having spent all his cash on Life Descending (sadly without return), the book went unedited by a professional editor. Despite this major flaw, At the End was well received by most. In February 2013, Permuted Press approached him with an offer to re-release At the End and publish the rest of the trilogy. A second edition of At the End (fully edited!) is forthcoming 2013.John now lives in the Rose Lands of Portland, Oregon, with his wife Katherine, their furry feline Phoebe, and their two budgies Lola and Pablo. He is now at work finishing The Road to Extinction Trilogy. Visit his website at: http://www.johnhennessy.net

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      OH MY, BUT I AM HOOKED AND MUST READ THE NEXT! I was captivated from the first page. I felt sorry for the triplets at first and felt that Juliana must run for her life with her two brothers thinking that they were Vampires! Well some thing was killing the old people in their town. I can't say more without giving the story away, but I NEED TO READ THE REST!

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    Murderous Little Darlings - John Hennessy

    Murderous Little Darlings:

    A Tale of Vampires Book I

    A Tale of Vampires is a series of seven official stories; a chronicle about a group of vampires.

    I: Murderous Little Darlings

    Meet Vampire siblings Marcus, Rocco and Juliana in the official first book in the best selling Tale of Vampires series

    Are they truly members of the undead or not? And is anyone safe from their ghoulish games?

    Three siblings. An endless list of victims. A whole lot of time to kill.

    * * *

    With two specimens of the undead on either side of her, Juliana knew there was no escape. Kill the one they had selected for her, or be killed, and become one of them. What had the neighbours in the road called them, back when their childhood pranks were just that?

    Oh yes, she remembered now. Murderous Little Darlings. They had the faces of angels, but possessed the very soul of the Devil.

    Marcus had fully embraced his vampire side from the moment he was born. Rocco was the second eldest, and had fought the temptation all of his life. Then Marcus finally broke him.

    That just left Juliana. Will she resist them, or join in the hunt?

    *

    The vampire classic reborn, from English born author John Hennessy.

    Love the Tale of Vampires books? Complete the series!!

    Recommended reading order

    Prequel: Dawn of the New Breed

    I: Murderous Little Darlings (a FREE novella)

    II: The Blood and the Raven (FREE to subscribers on my VIP Readers Group)

    III: Innocent While She Sleeps

    IV: Dream the Crow's Black Dream

    V: Reunion of the Blood

    VI: Our Hearts Go to Their Graves (new for 2020)

    A Spin-Off: Murderous Little Christmas Darlings (release date TBA in 2020)

    VII: The Final Tale of Vampires Story (release date and title TBA)

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    John Hennessy

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    Copyright

    Copyright © 2014 John Hennessy

    This Edition © 2020 John Hennessy

    Cover and back design © Images courtesy of Depositphotos.com

    Typography © John Hennessy

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems – except in the case of brief quotations in articles or reviews – without the permission in writing from its publisher, John Hennessy.

    All brand names and product names used in this book are trademarks, registered trademarks, or trade names of their respective holders. The author is not associated with any product or vendor in this book.

    First published in the United Kingdom in 2014.

    Text copyright © John Hennessy 2014

    The right of John Hennessy to be identified as the author of this work is asserted by him.

    ISBN-10: 1502863065

    ISBN-13: 978-1502863065

    A CIP Catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

    All rights reserved.

    This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade of otherwise, be lent, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the author, John Hennessy.

    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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    Contents

    Murderous Little Darlings:

    A Tale of Vampires Book I

    Copyright

    Table of Contents

    First Kill

    Grave Error

    Now You See Me...

    On the Run

    Cemetery Gates

    Where Angels are Made, not Born

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