Dark Whisper
About this ebook
Everett Grantham, half human and half vampire, has been leading a tortured double life since being bitten long ago. Now living in London, he struggles with his secret, his bloodlust, and his Hippocratic Oath. He has vowed to feed only upon scoundrels and murderers as he drifts through the centuries searching for some kind of solace.
But when he meets Rose Brendan, a feisty, eighteen-year-old Irish girl who has just come to town at the invitation of her best friend Mary Kelly, he's immediately drawn to her. The answer to their deep attraction lies buried in history, in a past incarnation during the French Revolution. He owes her a debt of life, but soon his sense of obligation turns to love, a love that might restore his lost humanity.
But there is a figure in London far darker than any vampire. Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the city. And Rose is next for his blade.
Keywords: vampires, fantasy, paranormal, historical fantasy, Jack the Ripper mystery
About the author
Robert Tomaro’s short stories have been published in Tribes, the literary quarterly of Manhattan and in several volumes of the Rockford Writers Guild of Rockford, Illinois. He is a classical music and jazz editor for Cashbox Magazine, and an arts correspondent for the Rock River Times in Illinois.
His first book, Contemporary Compositional Techniques for the Electric Guitar in United States Concert Music, was published by both the Journal for New Music Research and Taylor and Francis.
A prolific composer, conductor and arranger, he received a Grammy Award nomination in 2015 by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for “Best Vocal and Instrumental Arrangement” for his original title song on the CD “Broken Angel” by rock artist Susan Aquila, which also received a Grammy nomination for “Best Rock Album of the Year.” He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda and Kappa Delta Pi, the national honors societies of Music Education and Education. Currently, Robert serves as Music Director and Conductor of the Rock River Philharmonic of Wisconsin. He has conducted major orchestras throughout Europe, including the London Symphony, the Moravian Philharmonic, the Silesian Philharmonic, the Black Sea Philharmonic, and, domestically, the Santa Cruz County Symphony, the Rockford Symphony, the Lima Symphony, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the Elysian Symphony, The Fairbanks Symphony and others.