Regan Calloway got more notoriety than she could handle seven years ago when she used her gift of psychic touch to help catch a brutal child murderer. When a string of bizarre assaults strikes the mill town of Sheridan, Massachusetts, Dr. Hiram Clauson persuades Regan to use her abilities to help him interview the victims. As the investigations take an unsettling turn, Regan's lifelong friend, Veronica Standish, begs her to try to find out more about a new man in town, Jonathan Vaughn. Regan and Jonathan's first meeting triggers an escalating series of disasters, for Jonathan Vaughn is one of the rare and scattered group of men and women known as vampires only to those few people whom they trust. In the chaos that follows, Regan struggles to hold on to everything she thought she could never bear to lose. As friends and associates turn into ruthless adversaries, and allies appear from unexpected places, Regan is forced to make choices she never dreamed she would have to face.
Inanna Arthen is the author The Vampires of New England Series (http://vampiresofnewengland.com), an open-ended non-linear storyline set in a realistic fantasy universe very like our everyday world. Book One, MORTAL TOUCH (July, 2007) is set in 2004 in Massachusetts. Book Two, THE LONGER THE FALL (June, 2010) takes the story back to Maine in the 1950s. The third volume, ALL THE SHADOWS OF THE RAINBOW (due out in 2012) will follow the characters through the tumultuous 1960s.
Inanna has studied vampire folklore, media, culture and fact for more than forty years, and runs By Light Unseen Media (http://bylightunseenmedia.com), an independent press dedicated to publishing vampire fiction and nonfiction.
An initiated Witch and Pagan activist, Inanna worked for ten years with the Boston-based Pagan network, The EarthSpirit Community, whose magazine FIREHEART published a number of her nonfiction articles. Now archived online, some of these pieces still attract many readers. Inanna holds an M.Div degree from Harvard and spent a decade working in a central Massachusetts battered women's shelter. Genderqueer and a strong advocate for LGBTQ issues, Inanna includes positively presented characters of alternate gender identity and experience in her fiction.
Inanna's nonfiction articles have been cited in numerous academic books and countless online sources. She is a member of Independent Publishers of New England, the Independent Book Publishers Association, Broad Universe, Horror Writers Association and New England Horror Writers.
