Blood Ties is based on a series of books by author Tanya Huff.

	Blood Price (1991), Vol. 1 of Blood Series Vicki (aka Victory) Nelson left the police force to become a private investigator because of her deteriorating eyesight. When she comes across a particularly repulsive murder, the old instinct kicks in. The corpse has been drained of most of its blood. After more deaths in a similar manner, the newspapers are screaming about a vampire in Toronto. Little does anyone know that Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of Henry the Eighth, vampire extraordinaire is irked that someone is doing this in his city. Henry, now a romance novelist (who'd know more than a 450-year old vampire?), is disturbed and worried about the threat of exposure. So he joins forces with Vicki Nelson and Mike Celluci, a Toronto cop, to track down this killer.
	Blood Trail (1992), Vol. 2 of Blood Series Henry Fitzroy, vampire and romance novelist, is been contacted by the Heerkins, a family of peaceful werewolves. Someone has been murdering them around their London, Ontario farmhouse -- shooting family members with silver bullets. Since he can't hunt down the killer alone, he hires Vicki Nelson to assist him with the daylight part of the investigation. But he's yet to tell her the Heerkin family secret. Vicki wonders what is going on when the usual course of an investigation gets stymied time and again.
	Blood Lines (1992), Vol. 3 of Blood Series Henry Fitzroy, vampire and bastard son of Henry VIII, is starting to dream about the sun. He has heard the legends of vampires, weary of their existence, who destroy themselves by walking into the sun. Henry doesn't think that he's ready to do that yet. Meanwhile, there is something older than Henry himself stalking the good citizens of Toronto; a 3000-year old Egyptian. Tawfik, the last priest of a forgotten Egyptian god, wants to resurrect the worship of his dark god, and make Toronto the center of a glorious new empire. He's got the means and the magic. Vicki and Mike Celluci, the Toronto cop, take on the case and become convinced that the killer is a mummy, rasied from the dead.
	Blood Pact (1993), Vol. 4 of Blood Series It began with a phone call that nobody wants to get, Vicki Nelson learns that her mother is dead. But it worsens when Mom's body disappears from the Kingston, Ontario funeral home. Shortly thereafter, Vicki sees her dead mother peering through her window one night. She knows something is definitely wrong. Why has this happened? And who is the mad doctor to inflict this on someone? Vicki becomes anxious to discover the reason and how to right this terrible wrong. Henry Fitzroy, vampire and Vicki's sometime lover, and Mike Celluci, the Toronto cop, show up to lend their talents to track down the culprit and see that her mother's properly buried.
	Blood Debt (1997), Vol. 5 of Blood Series Vampires are extremely territorial. Ask anyone who knows -- they can't stand to be near one another, even in the same city. But Vicki Nelson isn't just any vampire. When Henry Fitzroy, vampire and romance novelist, starts waking up and seeing ghosts he knows he's in deep do-do. People are dying and he's got a role in it. So calling Vicki for help is difficult and awkward. When she comes all the way from Toronto to Henry's new home in Vancouver, things nearly get out of hand between the two of them. And there's still the ghost to deal with along with some humans who are even more monstrous than any of the supernatural menaces Vicki and Henry have run into before. After four-year lull, Vicki and Henry Fitzroy are back circling each other.

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The Author

Tanya Huff

THE ESSENTIAL BIOGRAPHY

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Although I haven't actually lived "down east" since just before my fourth birthday, I still consider myself a Maritimer. I think it's something to do with being born in sight of the ocean. Or possibly with the fact that almost no one admits to being from Ontario...

Raised, for the most part, in Kingston, Ontario. It was the late sixties, early to mid seventies. Enough said for those of us who lived through it-and those who didn't seem to be getting another chance to fall off platform shoes.

Spent three years in the Canadian Naval Reserve: I was a cook. They'd just opened it up to women and I figured it would be the first trade that would send women to sea. I was right. Unfortunately it happened a year after I left. No tattoos.

Received a degree in RADIO AND TELEVISION ARTS (B.A.A.) from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute: The year I graduated was the year that the CBC laid off 750 employees in Toronto alone. We were competing for jobs with people who had up to five years experience. The cat threw up on my degree.

Spent eight years working at Bakka, North America's oldest surviving science fiction book store: Change Of Hobbit in California was actually a very little bit older but unfortunately it was a casualty of the recession in '91. During those eight years, while working full-time, I wrote seven books (the first seven, except for the original draft of CHILD), and nine short stories.

In 1992, after living in downtown Toronto, a city of nearly three million, for thirteen years, I moved with two large cats, one small psychotic cat, and my partner out to a rented house in the middle of nowhere. In the years since, we've purchased the house, buried two of the original cats, replaced them with three more felines and, unintentionally, acquired a Chihuahua. You're probably wondering how two reasonably intelligent adults can unintentionally acquire a Chihuahua. Please don't ask.

I love living in the country, writing full-time, anything by Charles de Lint, Xena, Hercules, and email. I dislike telephones, electric blankets, and bathroom renovations.

I always expect catastrophe; as a result, I'm usually pleasantly surprised.

Biography taken from Meisha Merlin Publications