BLOOD & SAND
The First Book of Rue
Sometimes being a 4000-year-old vampire isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Between bad dreams, blackouts, and an unusual amount of sun for her adopted home of Dublin, Rue just isn’t having the best summer. Taking a walk to try and relax, she finds herself being hunted, by a frustratingly familiar and distractingly desirable girl. A girl who is being hunted herself. That’s when things get a whole lot worse.
Born a daughter of the temple, Asharru is a true believer. A child of the gods. When raiders from the mountains attack, destroying her city and devastating her dreams, Asharru decides to die by her own hand rather than theirs, calling to the gods to take her soul. The gods do not hear her—but something else does. Something dark, patient and eternal. Reborn in pain, torn from light, Asharru must learn to survive, in endless nights of sand, sorrow, and blood.
Dive into the immortal struggle of ‘Blood & Sand: The First Book of Rue’. Immerse yourself in this dark, contemporary and historical Urban Fantasy, winner of the ‘Golden Stake’ First Prize for Literature, at the International Vampire Film and Arts Festival.
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THE BOOKS OF RUE
Entire trilogy coming soon!
BLOOD & SAND
THE FIRST BOOK OF RUE
Sometimes being a 4000-year-old vampire isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
BLOOD & SILK
THE SECOND BOOK OF RUE
Sometimes love means going through Hell…literally.
BLOOD & STONE
THE THIRD BOOK OF RUE
Sometimes when you’ve been through Hell, getting into Heaven doesn’t seem so hard.
About Aisling...
Aisling Wilder writes epic Urban and High Fantasy from her home in the west of Ireland, just on the edge of windswept Connemara. Growing up, Aisling’s favourite stories were always tales of the supernatural – from folk and Fairy Tales, legends and myth, to the stories of C.S. Lewis to Tolkien to more modern stories of elves and fairies, mystery and and magic, she was transfixed. So much so that she would think about the stories long after they were read, carrying on in her own imagination with things that could have happened after the ‘Happily Ever After’. It was a natural progression to writer from there. Aisling has always been fond of the dark, and the creatures of the night, and is thrilled to be able to share this fascination with her readers.