Blood Moon

By H.L. Sudler

Years ago, Walker Dupre was horribly shamed during a fraternity game gone wrong. Years later, he has invited members of that fraternity group back to the college for a Homecoming celebration. He has something to show them. He has a score to settle. A revenge beyond their wildest dreams.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archer Publishing
• Release date: Mar 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781735199382

H.L. Sudler

H.L. SUDLER is the author of six books, including Patriarch: My Extraordinary Journey from Man to Gentleman, CafeLiving's Favorite Cocktails (with Keith Vient), Man to Gentleman: A Beginner's Guide to Manhood, his short story collection The Looking Glass: Tales of Light and Dark, and his thriller novel series Summerville and Return to Summerville. His short story The Way of All Flesh was selected for the PATHS Humanitarian Writing Award. He has served as a magazine publisher, a newspaper editor, and a contributing writer to numerous anthologies and periodicals. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and currently lives in Washington, DC.

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Blood Moon

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Archer Publishing ISBN

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Books by H.L. Sudler

Patriarch: My Extraordinary Journey

From Man to Gentleman

Summerville

From Man to Gentleman:

A Beginner’s Guide to Manhood

Return to Summerville

The Looking Glass: Tales of Light and Dark

CafeLiving’s Favorite Cocktails

Stories by H.L. Sudler

The Looking Glass: A New York Love Story

Wake the Dead

You Won’t Forget Me

Midnight

Sandman

Night As We Know It

Daytrippers

The best revenge is to be unlike him

that committed the injury.

Marcus Aurelius

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Blood Moon

Fire crackled in the dark, quiet living room.

  Walker knelt in front of the fireplace, staring at the kindling, knowing his mother Evangeline was watching him from the sofa. 

  Why was he so nervous, so frightened of what was to come?

  I know you’re scared, Evangeline said. I was too.

  Walker looked over his shoulder. His mother was so beautiful, so regal, so strong. Fright must have been in his eyes plainly, because he saw the reaction in her eyes looking into his. 

  Get up, she said, and she stood too. 

  He was a bit taller than her, handsome, much like his father Lucas was when they met. His beautiful brown skin. His tender eyes that reflected everything in his heart. She remembered Walker as a little boy running through this very living room of their cabin retreat in the bayou. A cabin that had been in the Dupre family for generations.

  I’m proud of you, she said, tenderly. Do you know that?

  Yes, Mama.

  What’s going to happen to you tonight is what’s happened in this family for centuries. Your father, his father, your sister…me. One day you will have children and they will carry on the Dupre name. The Dupre birthright.

  Evangeline patted her son on his broad shoulders and walked around him to stand in front of the fireplace. 

  She was striking. Her wide eyes. Her long black, lustrous hair. A sexy shape, a sexy walk, even at her age. The walk of a matriarch.

  "Your aunt Olivia up and left us here in New Orleans many years ago. Married herself a white man in New York who had money. It’s not like she needed more. We Duprees, Black and White, have had a