Blood Memory

What if you could remember the past not from books, but from blood? Elara Vance is a historian obsessed with the past. When she undergoes a radical new therapy, she believes she's found the ultimate key to understanding history: the ability to experience the genetic memories of her ancestors. The donor was a man from Salem, 1692. At first, it's a historian's dream. She can smell the pine in a carpenter's shop, see the flicker of tallow candles on parchment. But the wonder soon curdles into terror. The memories are not passive recordings. They carry a passenger—the fanatical, unforgiving consciousness of a man who hunted witches. A cold, grim voice now whispers beneath her own thoughts, condemning her modern life as corrupt and frivolous. Her own reflection scowls back at her with a stranger's eyes. The past is no longer a subject to be studied; it is a living, breathing entity inside her, fighting for control. Desperate to be free, Elara makes a horrifying choice: if the monster is in her blood, then the blood must be let out. But her act of self-preservation backfires in the most terrifying way possible. It proves to her invader that she is a flawed vessel... and he decides to take permanent control. The war for her soul is over. She lost. Now, armed with her knowledge and hidden in her body, a righteous fanatic from the darkest chapters of American history is ready to walk into the modern world—and begin his purge anew. A chilling fusion of psychological thriller and supernatural horror, Blood Letting is a terrifying descent into a past that refuses to stay dead, and a future where salvation is a memory away.