COVER REVEAL: WILDBLOOD

BOOKISH TIDBITS / Wednesday, March 20th, 2024

  • TITLE: WILDBLOOD
  • AUTHOR: AJ Vrana
  • PUBLISHER: Self-Published
  • RELEASE DATE: October 29, 2024
  • COVER ART & JACKET: Alexandra Skiba
  • GENRE: Dark urban fantasy-noir, Romatic Fantasy, Paranormal Fantasy
  • INTENDED AUDIENCE: Adult (18+)
  • PRE-ORDER WILDBLOOD on AJ Vrana’s Website: https://thechaoscycle.com/shop/

BOOK SUMMARY
Kai Donovan has always had sharp teeth.

Earning his keep as an underground fighter in South Boston, he revels in well-earned notoriety. Wild. Irreverent. Vicious. His secret: he’s the monster from a fable.

But when Kai loses a match against a mysterious opponent whose ferocity rivals his own, he finds himself beholden to the underworld. What he owes isn’t money, but the recovery of an elusive prize coveted by the city’s most dangerous criminals. 

His partner Miya—burdened with the ability to traverse dreams—spends her days investigating supernatural phenomena. When she receives a shadowy proposal to find a missing teenager, she’s confronted with the possibility that another like her exists. 

As Kai and Miya chase ghosts, the threads of their pursuits weave into a menacing tapestry. Kai’s dark past returns to haunt him, threatening the bonds he believed to be ironclad. Unhealed wounds fester as he’s faced with a ruinous choice: unravel his blood-soaked history or lose himself and the life he’s scavenged together. 

Bare your teeth. The nightmares are at your door.

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Wildblood is a companion novel to The Chaos Cycle Duology. It can be enjoyed as a standalone, though familiarity with the duology may enrich reader experience.

THE CHAOS CYCLE DUOLOGY
hile this is a standalone novel, I highly recommed the The Chaos Cycle Duology which will give you more insight into Kai and Miya’s relationship. The links below are reviews of both books.
Review of The Hollow Gods
Review of The Echoed Realm

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A. J. Vrana is a Serbian-Canadian academic and writer from Toronto, Canada. She lives with her rescue cats, Moonstone and Peanut Butter, who nest in her window-side bookshelf and cast judgmental stares at nearby pigeons. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, and her doctoral research examines the supernatural in Japanese and former Yugoslavian literature and its relationship to modern nation-building and historiography. Her Master of Health Studies research focuses on type 1 diabetes and emotional labour in young adults.

AJ Vrana, Author

When not toiling away at caffeine-fueled, scholarly pursuits, she enjoys jewelry-making, cupcakes, and concocting dark tales to unleash upon the world. Her favourite videogame franchise will always be Zelda, with Majora’s Mask capturing her heart like no other game. She has a soft spot for Capcom’s Okami and the Devil May Cry series, but she will rabidly defend Ninja Theory’s horrendously underrated DmC: Devil May Cry reboot. 

A. J. Vrana’s published works include the Indie Author Project-winning Chaos Cycle Duology: The Hollow Gods (2020) and The Echoed Realm (2021), the companion novel Wildblood (2024) from Parliament House Press, and the romantic short story collection, Stray Feathers: Extras from The Chaos Cycle (2022). Her short fiction includes “These Silent Walls” (2020), printed in Three Crows Magazine, and “Sapling,” (2023) from Clan Destine Press’ horror anthology This Fresh Hell.

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