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|title=A Love Like Blood

|sort=Love Like Blood, A

|publisher=Mulholland Books

|date=March 2014

|summary=Not a debut novel – far from it, but you might still be surprised at just how good this book can get, as it brings so many blood-related themes to the genre of vampire fiction and still manages to be a supremely enjoyable story.

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One day towards the end of World War Two, Charles Jackson is dragged to a museum of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtime. While the other looks at the unusual ancient artefacts, Jackson finds something much more horrific – a man in a wartime bunker in the grounds, squatting over a female figure, blood on his lips that could only have come from her neckline. Years later, Jackson returns to Paris for reasons to do with his medical career, and finds the same man in the company of someone who, were he only aware of the fact, is to become the first and possibly only love of his life. But that's not the only time the paths of Jackson and the mysterious male are destined to cross – the prologue was set in the late 1960s…