BloodLines
Paperback
Series: By the Cross, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Jamie Folsom
Published: Apr 18 2026
Pages: 610
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.35 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
After a funeral in Mexico ends in terror, Avery's family flees home to Texas carrying more than grief. The man who found her in the market was not a stranger. He was a name buried in family silence, a legend whispered through old towns, church roads, and generations of women taught to survive by fear.
Back on West Avenue, the threat does not stay behind them. It follows in signs, warnings, and the slow unraveling of truths Avery was never supposed to hear. As her mother and grandmother are forced to confront the bargain that shaped their bloodline, Avery begins to see what the adults around her have spent years trying not to name: the devil in the story is a man, and he has come to collect what was promised.
Dark, atmospheric, and brutally intimate, Bloodlines is a psychological noir thriller about inherited terror, family silence, and the price the next girl always pays.
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