title: Blood Kin: A Novel
author:  Ceridwen Dovey 
description: "A precise and terrifying debut novel." <br>-<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><br> "Dovey's surgical prose and cool apprehension of the machinations of ambition and lust make her a writer to watch." <br>-<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i><br><br> "Taut and remarkably self-assured first novel . . . there's a knowing sensuality to the novel's sparsely lyric passages." <br>-<i>Los Angeles Times</i>
zlib_text: THE BLOOD SOCIETY
  
  B.B. PALOMO
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, organizations, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  Copyright © 2020 by B.B. Palomo. 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, without written permission from the author, except for the use of
  brief quotations in a book review.
  For more information, email authorbbpalomo@gmail.com
  Published by Ember Sky Publishing, LLC
  Edited by Emily A. Lawrence
  www.lawrenceediting.com
  Cover Design by Sarah Hansen, Okay Creations
  okaycreations.com
  Print ISBN 978-1-7350666-1-5
  Ebook ISBN 978-1-7350666-0-8
  
  To my daughter, Emberly. Always follow your dreams.
  
  Contents
  Prologue
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapte