The Game

The Blood Trilogy #0.5

by Chris DeFazio

A novella from the Blood Trilogy world.

Emily Cherniack’s older brother is killed in Viet Nam. Then her parents die in a car crash, leaving Emily all alone in the world to raise her kid brother, Victor. And she’s failing miserably. Barely above the poverty line, Emily loses her menial job adding insult to injury and pushing her over the edge. At her wit’s end and just when she thinks her luck couldn’t get any worse, she runs into the Montreal vampire, Neal “the Squid” O’Sullivan.

Will the encounter be the end of her, or will she find a way to deal with it and soldier on?

The answers lie waiting in The Game.

91 pages, Paperback

First published July 19, 2021

About the author

Chris DeFazio, a Boston area native, is a career ER Doc. He's also a teacher to Northeastern University Physician Assistant students, a hack golfer, an amateur history buff, an avid traveler and a dog lover.

He'd always enjoyed writing as a hobby, and being particularly inspired by the works of Stephen King, Frank Herbert and Anthony Everitt, found the time and motivation to write a novel, A History in Blood, the first book in a planned series of three.