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This is Not a Vampire Story

Seventeen-year-old Victor Callahan holds a secret as ancient as the shadows.

Employed as a night porter in a quiet Irish nursing home, the teenager watches over a group of men he once knew a long time ago. Victor has orchestrated their reunion for a final farewell, a goodbye to those whose lives have shaped him through the years.

But can he keep his secret from Lakeshore Manor’s oldest resident, James O’Carroll?

As he cares for these remnants of his past, memories of a bygone era haunt him — of wild adventures on the rugged Irish coast, of forbidden love hidden beneath the threat of eternal night, and of a shipwreck that changes everything…

Gloria Pinto, the night nurse, doesn’t like him. But maybe she has her own secrets.

This is Not a Vampire Story weaves a tale of timeless bonds, the cost of immortality, and the lengths we go to for love.

But is love more important than life?

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Simon Doyle’s story, Where the Water Held You, appears in this summer’s hottest new anthology, It’s a Queer, Queer Summer, published by Rainbow Crate Bookbox.

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