The Blood Keeper - The Blood Journals Author:Tessa Gratton Fantasy fans who like their stories tinged with horror and romance will be drawn to this book. For Mab Prowd, the practice of blood magic is as natural as breathing. It's all she's ever known. Growing up on an isolated farm in Kansas with other practitioners may have kept her from making friends her own age, but it has also given her a sense of ... more »purpose. Mab will do anything to keep the ancient practice alive and guard its secrets. But one morning while she is working out a particularly tricky spell, she encounters Will, a local boy who is trying to exorcise some mundane personal demons. He experiences Mab's magic in a way his mind cannot comprehend and is all too happy to end their chance meeting. But secrets that were kept from Mab by earlier generations of blood magicians have come home to roost. And she and Will are drawn back together time and again by this dangerous force looking to break free from the earth and reclaim its own dark power.« less