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Blood Mark

Dark Dreams Book 1

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Pub Date 19 Oct 2021 | Archive Date 10 Sep 2022


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Description

What if your lifelong curse is the only thing keeping you alive? Abandoned at birth, life has always been a battle for Jane Walker. She and her best friend, Sadie, spent years fighting to survive Vancouver’s cutthroat underbelly. That would have been tough enough without Jane’s mysterious afflictions: an intricate pattern of blood-red birthmarks that snake around her body and vivid, heart-wrenching nightmares that feel so real she wakes up screaming.

After she meets the first man who isn’t repulsed by her birthmarks, Jane thinks she might finally have a chance at happiness. Her belief seems confirmed as the birthmarks she’s spent her life so ashamed of magically begin to disappear. Yet, the quicker her scarlet marks vanish, the more lucid and disturbing Jane’s nightmares become—until it’s impossible to discern her dreams from reality, and Jane comes to a horrifying realization:

The nightmares that have plagued her since childhood are actually visions of real people being stalked by a deadly killer. And all this time, her birthmarks have been the only things protecting her from becoming his next victim.

Blood Mark is the first in a brand-new paranormal thriller series by JP McLean, author of The Gift Legacy series and whose writing has been described as “. . . deftly crafted, impressively original, and inherently compelling from first page to last.”

What if your lifelong curse is the only thing keeping you alive? Abandoned at birth, life has always been a battle for Jane Walker. She and her best friend, Sadie, spent years fighting to survive...


A Note From the Publisher

Blood Mark received the Reader’s House Editor’s Choice Award of Excellence, is a Global Book Award winner, a CIBA finalist, and received honours from the Eric Hoffer Book Awards, the Wishing Shelf Book Awards, and the NIEA Awards.

Blood Mark received the Reader’s House Editor’s Choice Award of Excellence, is a Global Book Award winner, a CIBA finalist, and received honours from the Eric Hoffer Book Awards, the Wishing Shelf...


Advance Praise

"McLean's writing is clear, gentle, relentless, and original.

—Ottawa Review of Books


JP McLean's novel is a fresh and original mystery thriller with a side of budding romance. The twists and turns will keep the reader in suspense until the very end when all is shockingly revealed. This gripping tale should be on every bookshelf this year!

—InD’Tale Magazine


Featuring a fearless, badass heroine and plot twists that will leave readers breathless, J.P. McLean's Blood Mark is a gritty, sexy, fast-paced thrill ride from start to finish.

—E.E. Holmes, award-winning and best-selling author of The Gateway Trilogy, The Gateway Trackers, and the Riftmagic Saga.

 

A deliciously addictive fever dream of a mystery with a surreal beauty akin to a David Lynch film. I loved it!

—Jennifer Anne Gordon, author of Beautiful, Frightening, and Silent winner of the Kindle Award for Best Horror/Suspense 2020

 

An explosive new series that combines mystery and magic into a can't-put-down thriller.

—Eileen Cook, award-winning author of You Owe Me a Murder and With Malice

Blood Mark is an enthralling dark fantasy novel with captivating characters that will appeal to anyone looking for a crime thriller with a unique supernatural setup.

—Literary Titan

"McLean's writing is clear, gentle, relentless, and original.

—Ottawa Review of Books


JP McLean's novel is a fresh and original mystery thriller with a side of budding romance. The twists and turns...


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ISBN 9781988125572
PRICE US$4.99 (USD)

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