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Kristen Painter is an American author of fantasy romance novels as well as novels in the genre of urban fantasy and contemporary paranormal and young adult. She has seen her work published in the form of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction works as well.

She was a Golden Heart finalist in 2005 and 2007. Kristen Painter is also the co-founder of a site for romance writers that has won awards called Romance Divas. She enjoys being the webmistress for STAR as well. She soon hopes to change her status from RWA PRO to RWA pan with the help of her agent.

Kristen Painter is the author of the Steampunk Romance series, the first book in this series being Miss Bramble and the Leviathan. She is also the author of the popular House of Comarre series, which deals with humans and vampires in a fantasy world. There are six books in this series, starting with 2011’s Blood Rights and ending with Last Blood and Forbidden Blood.

She is also the author of the Crescent City series, of which there are three books total. She is also the author of the Nocturne Falls series, with eight official books in this set but twelve books total, with a short story collection released in 2017. She also authored a spin-off series called Nocturne Falls Mystery: Jayne Frost, of which there are three books.

Painter has also released some books that are not a part of the series that include Heart of Fire and Dark Kiss of the Reaper. She has contributed to books such as Hex the Halls with a number of people (published in 2015), and Magic, Mayhem, and Memory, which she contributed to with the help of seven other authors. She has written one novella, Her Viking Valentine, which was published in 2011. She has contributed to three books of the Sin City Collectors series and the Happily Everlasting series in the book Witchful Thinking.

Blood Rights is the first book in the House of Comarre series. This unique fantasy series delves into a world nothing like we are used to seeing and deals with vampires and humans. Chrysabelle is the main character in this novel, and she is a comarré. The comarré are a specially created race of humans that were bred in order to fulfill their purpose, which is to be food for vampire nobility.

Chrysabelle is born into a life of service in a secret part of society that no one really knows about, and her body bears the signs of being in this class. She is covered from head to toe in gold design, gilded in vines and butterflies. She looks to be about a human around the age of twenty, but the truth is that she is one hundred and fifteen years old.

Her body produces more blood than it needs like it was meant to do, which means that if she is not fed upon frequently enough she will develop hypervolemia and die. In turn, vampire saliva gives the humans eternal youth and supernatural strength. Chrysabelle is actually special even among her kind, and the rights to her blood were sold for the highest price ever, 22 million Euro, to her new patron Lord Algernon.

The blood rights of people like her once sold to a noble mean that no other vampire is allowed to feed off of them unless their patron is deceased. So when her patron vampire is suddenly killed after a hundred years of living in his house by a weapon only people like her could wield, she becomes the main suspect in his murder and is suddenly under threat of death. Chrysabelle finds herself making a break for it into the world of mortals, which carries a significant amount of danger. She can’t even enjoy her freedom because she must journey to Paradise City to set things right.

It is there that she meets Malkolm, who used to be a noble with great power in the House of Tepes. A vampire like the ones she has known, he is actually different from the others because he is cast out of society after the second time he is cursed. Another thing about Malkolm that sets him apart from other vampires is that if he chooses to drink from someone, he will end up killing them. It is part of the conditions that come with the curse he carries, and the people that he kills live in his head, destined to haunt him forever. He has the names of his victims on his body.

When she offers to lift the curse, they forge a kind of alliance. Chrysabelle and her new friend find out that there is a plan to merge the worlds of the mortal and supernatural, something that cannot happen. They must stop this plan before it comes to be, and if they fail to stop it, then an apocalypse full of chaos will come about and rule the earth in a way that no one has ever witnessed and no one will ever witness again. Read this book for yourself to see whether Mal and Chrysabelle can pull it off.

In the second book of this urban fantasy series, Flesh and Blood, Chrysabelle is back again. She is still friends with Malkolm, but technically she does still owe him for the debt. This means that they must return to a hidden vampire city called Corvinestri. This might be a problem since neither of them is exactly welcome to this place.

The covenant between supernatural people and mortals has been broken, and they are searching for the ring of sorrows– with their problems just beginning. Chrysabelle has a brother, and this discovery could be huge. But does this mean that she must go back on a promise that she made to Malkolm– and will he be angry enough to totally change over and let the beast inside of him out? Chrysabelle must make a tough choice of whether to honor her friendship or fulfill the vow she made.

But keeping her word might come with problems of its own. It’s bad enough that there are power hungry witches on her trail, and on top of that, she has to deal with fringe vampires and the Kubai Mata. Pick up Flesh and Blood and catch the exciting adventures of Chrysabelle and Malcolm for yourself!

3 Responses to “Kristen Painter”

1. Michelle coffman: 1 year ago

   First I wanted to say thank you for sharing your great talent with the world second I would like to ask if you ever plan to write anymore in the crescent city series and the comarré series all of your books are fantastic but those two series are my favorite and not having any more is a tragedy in my opinion but even if you don’t intend to write anymore of those series I am very thankful that you are writing
   All my regards m.

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2. Julie: 4 years ago

   Just finished book four help help I must have book 5 ASAP I love your books I’m not even considered a young adult

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3. Susan Shafto: 4 years ago

   Wanted to know if book 4 in the first fang club is coming soon love this series can’t wait well done great stories

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