From the back cover:

The trick is to hide in plain sight…

In the decaying warehouse performance spaces and dimly lit nightclubs of San Francisco, a predator perfects his rituals of blood and torture, creating vast landscapes of nihilistic hedonism for jaded aesthetes. In the Tenderloin, in a haze of heroin and loss, horror novelist Zoe Starr tries to reassemble the shattered pieces of her life, gradually alienating everybody she has come to trust. Their love is unspoken, and together they will become their own legend. A shared lust for blood begets a nightmare world of post-modern sacrifice, perversion, redemption and slow-decay.

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Biography:

I’m Miranda.

Last year, I self-published a novel, In the Blood, wherein the vampires did not sparkle, and hedonism, bloodplay, heroin and goth rock were major plot points. Excellent reviews in a variety of horror-related periodicals, most notably Fangoria, followed and fostered a brief book tour of the west coast. Previously, I had published mainly record reviews, and was honored to have several short essays published in now-defunct yearly Morbid Curiosity. There are only a hundred original copies of In the Blood left in print; a new edition, published under my reclaimed maiden name (Miranda Luna was my married name) is presently in the works. I am currently hard at work on my second novel.

I live in the beautiful Siskiyou mountains of southern Oregon with my two children.

I also maintain a blog dedicated to occultism in rock music, and an art blog, Blood-Dimmed Tide. You may also find me on Myspace and LiveJournal.