Until Summer Comes Around
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
"Rolfe is the real deal, folks, and anything he writes is well worth checking out." - Gord Rollo, author of The Jigsaw Man and The Crucifixion Experiments
When fifteen year old Rocky Zukas meets a mysterious dark-haired girl named November, his world is forever changed. The young couple falls under the spell of summer love, but not everyone approves. November’s brother, Gabriel, is the keeper of the family’s secret, and big brother is always watching, growing more sinister as his bloodlust gets the best of him. Directing his attention to Rocky’s family, Gabriel aims to make sure little sister knows who is in charge.
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A family of vampires terrorizes a seaside town in Rolfe's lurid tale of adolescent romance and murder. Teenage Rocky Zukas lives a quiet, unremarkable life in Old Orchard Beach, until, in the summer of 1986, he falls hard and fast for a strange and beautiful newcomer named November Riley. Unfortunately for Rocky, the Rileys are vampires, and as November's older brother, Gabriel, tears through the town, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, November must choose between her family and her love for Rocky. Rolfe (Blood and Rain) treads well-worn ground, relying on the genre's familiar tropes and archetypal characters: the evil vampire driven mad by bloodlust, the anguished vampire who must choose between humanity and monstrosity, and the lovestruck human unwittingly caught up in the supernatural world. This middling, blood-spattered tale will appeal to diehard vampire fans, but it offers little to grab the attention of less invested readers.
