Blood Apple

Blood Apple by M. Freeman:

Sheila Harper was the perfect school librarian-quiet, kind, and utterly forgettable. But when the sun goes down, so does her humanity.

Haunted by blood-soaked dreams and a hunger she can't explain, Sheila's double life unfolds in the alleys and red-lit backstreets of New York City. By day, she shelves storybooks and reads to children. By night, she seduces strangers under neon lights... and drains them dry. Her body is changing-her smile too wide, her voice too cold, her thirst too endless.

As bodies pile up with no blood left to spill, Detective Lena Voss hunts the killer she can't explain and a child's disturbing drawings might hold the only clue. But something ancient watches from the shadows-a true vampire with rules, with purpose, and with one mission: stop Sheila before her twisted evolution shatters the veil between predator and prey forever.

Blood Apple is a gruesome, seductive plunge into the heart of darkness-where monsters wear glasses, murder wears lipstick, and salvation is just another lie we tell ourselves to sleep at night.