Fool’s Blood
About
In FOOL’S BLOOD, Wild West enthusiast Daniel Simon is about to learn that while curiosity kills the cat, it often thrills the bat.
Intrigued by the legend of the Lost Dutchman Mine near Apache Junction, Arizona, Daniel embarks on a weekend excursion with his fiancé, Amber Goldwyn, to Lost Dutchman State Park. Joined by his coworker Kevin Benningmun, the trio sets out to scale Flatiron Peak.
Daniel soon finds himself separated by the others when he falls deep within the mountaintop. Inside, he indeed finds the gold mine.Yet it isn’t long until his trip turns into a nightmare. Amber gets mad at him and leaves him stranded at Lost Dutchman. Kevin disappears under mysterious circumstances involving Kevin’s phone soaking in a puddle of spilt blood. And the park ranger, Hattie Laurence, dismisses Daniel’s complaints without a second thought.
But if Daniel thinks he can make it back to his apartment in Phoenix, he’s sadly mistaken. Because the gold mine he found belongs to a vampire named Loren Blackfyre. And Loren’s grandson, Marcus, has marked Daniel as his next victim to subjugate through a mental thrall.
Can Daniel stop the bloodsuckers from making him one of their own? And what dark secret does Ranger Laurence herself carry?
Praise for this book
The allure of the Lost Dutchman gold mine is what piqued my curiosity about this book, as is the case with the tale’s protagonist, Daniel Simon.
What Daniel finds during a weekend trip to locate the legendary goldmine with his fiancé Amber and friend Kevin changes their lives forever. It’s a discovery that turns out to have nothing to do with lost treasure and everything to do with nightmarish events, starting with Daniel falling into a mineshaft and injuring his leg, and quickly spurring a quest for redemption as Daniel is plunged into a reality in which all he has ever known, and all whom he has ever loved, are lost.
I really enjoyed this vampire tale wrapped around the mysteries of the Superstition Mountains. Beesler writes with a straightforward, amusing, and visceral prose that grounds readers in the action and is filled with relatable characters plucked from modern Arizona in which his tale unfolds. The believable elements of his writing makes the story even more compelling as it slips into a strange kind of madness that kept me turning the pages and wondering how, or if, Daniel will succeed in his thirst for justice.
A great twist on legends of old with horrors anew.