The Truth About Blood

Written by Amanda Arista

Narrated by Angele Masters

As an investigative journalist, Merci Lanard always gets her story but she doesn't always get the truth she wants.

After discovering her mother passed along a demon lineage, Merci goes to her mother’s active retirement community to ask the tough questions about their blood, their power, and the truth about her father’s death.

Instead of answers, she is gifted a dead body and a plea to find out what happened. Since Philly is peaceful and things aren’t exactly perfect with Rafe, she stays in New Haven to hunt down a killer and answers about herself.

Navigating wakes and themed parties, Merci finds herself at home with drug rings and a conniving political arena threatening her mother’s community of Wanderers. But as another body puts Merci in jail, she needs to draw on her own community to help- Rafe.

As she fully realizes the power of what her mother has built and the dark side of that, she finds the truth behind the killings, the truth about family, and the truth about the real power of her blood.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bryant Street Publishing
• Release date: Sep 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781094419466

Amanda Arista

Amanda Arista was born in Illinois, grew up in Corpus Christi, and lives in Dallas, but her heart lies in London. When not writing, she often dreams of co-opening an evil bakery and selling despicable desserts. She spends her weekends writing at coffee shops, practicing for the day that caffeine intake becomes an Olympic sport, and plotting character demises.

Reviews for The Truth About Blood

[Valorie Magill · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Better than the first in my opinion. Much more engaging!

[MELISSIA LENOX · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This 2d installment of the Merci Lanard trilogy is a continuation of an excellent storyline w perfect narrators. There's nothing like an altogether well done audiobook. I'm off to listen to book 3, The Truth about Shadows, which is narrated by a different female voice.

[Rebekah Sandell · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I read this one first, now I'm hooked and will have to read the first one. Great story about Family and Love and not crossing an investigative reporter within ability for truth.

[Lori Brock · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

The worst narrator I have ever heard. M might have been good I don’t know I couldn’t make myself listen to it

[J Plested · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great storyline. Looking forward to the next one. Still having to listen at 1.2 speed

[Smart Clean, LLC · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

The narrators killed the book! Soooo annoying! Can’t listen to the whole book

[Angel Feimster · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

So far so good but voice of the reader is way to mechanical and monotonous. It makes Merci even more insufferable than she is…..

[Jenna Vaughn · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed this book. Did not like that she and Rafe were separated for so much of the book, it was like 60% through before we got any time with the two of them together. I did enjoy the theme of family and the deeper delve into their magical world.

[Giada Vancini · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

As good as the first one, if not better. I thoroughly enjoyed these Arista's books. Thansk

[Wanda Schaefer · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great book! Nice series, decent entertainment, good narrator. Thumbs up.

[Christina Gibbons · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I gave this book five stars because it was a good story sometimes it felt like it was kind of running on losing interest a little bit but then pick back up would have been nice if there was a little bit more romance narrator was good but all in all it was a good mystery action book.. if any more come up that continue the character story I might go ahead and still continue with it just to see where they went

[Dear Red · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Good story could have been great if the author wasn't a bleeding heart snowflake liberal. Why the Sympathy towards a monster who eats body parts? This is the mindset that gives violent and dangerous criminals more rights than law abiding citizens. Woke people like you are not awake. You're living in a dream fantasy. This story could have been amazing if the author and main character wasn't so dumb.